James Harold Pead (3 April 1924 – 15 November 2009) was an

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politician.

ACT politics

He was an

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member of the

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for

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from 1975 to 1979, and then elected from the same electorate for the renamed House of Assembly from 1979 to 1982. He served as the first President of the Assembly from 1975 to 1979. Previously he had served on the predecessor body the

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from 1955 to 1974, acting as president from 1964. Pead helped establish the Yarralumla Progress Association in the early 1950s, which led to his involvement in the

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, and was elected as a Progress candidate from 1955 until it dissolved in the mid 1960s. From 1967 onwards he was an Independent candidate.

Federal politics

Pead was also an Independent candidate in the

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Personal life

After retiring from politics in 1982 Pead moved to

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, where he died in 2009. He was awarded a state funeral in Canberra at St Christopher's Cathedral, Canberra. Pead's son Gary has been politically active as an Independent candidate in the

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, for the Senate for Queensland in the

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, for the

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in the

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and for the

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in the

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. He was a

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candidate for the

in the

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, a

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candidate for the

in the

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, and an Independents For Climate Action Now candidate for the Senate for Queensland in the

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References

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