Keith Robert McCance (28 November 1929 – 2 January 2008) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to schoolteacher Robert Norman McLeod McCance and Ivy Emily McGill. He was educated at

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and Box Hill before graduating from Wesley College in 1947. He worked in a variety of jobs and in 1946 joined the Kew branch of the

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. On 7 February 1953 he married Joy Myra Cullis; they had two children. McCance eventually became a share registrar, managing share companies from 1960 to 1979. In 1979 he was elected to the

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for Bennettswood, but he was defeated after a single term in 1982. He subsequently worked as a consultant for Composite Insurance Services, before working for the Australian office of the

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from 1986 to 1995. McCance died in 2008.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McCance, Keith 1929 births 2008 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians