Otto Ottosen Madsen (8 December 1904 – 3 August 1963) was a member of the

Queensland Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembly h ...

Biography

Madsen was born in

Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined with Leamington Spa and Whi ...

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, the son of Mads Madsen and his wife Christine (née Ottosen), both of whom were born in

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. His brother,

Mick Madsen Peter "Mick" MadsenFamily history research
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, played

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 11 ...

for Australia.Death of Hon. O.O. Madsen
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. Retrieved 25 April 2016. Otto was educated at

Tannymorel Tannymorel is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Tannymorel had a population of 161 people. History The name ''Tannymorel'' comes from a village in Ireland and means ''a ben ...

State School and Warwick State High School before attending the Warwick Technical College. He became a

dairy farmer Dairy farming is a class of agriculture for long-term production of milk, which is processed (either on the farm or at a dairy plant, either of which may be called a dairy) for eventual sale of a dairy product. Dairy farming has a history that ...

, working in Tannymorel,

Killarney Killarney ( ; ga, Cill Airne , meaning 'church of sloes') is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. The town is on the northeastern shore of Lough Leane, part of Killarney National Park, and is home to St Mary's Cathedral, Ross Cast ...

, and Yangan. On 11 September 1924, Madsen married Nellie Inis Evans (died 1935) and together had two sons and two daughters. He died in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...

in August 1963 and accorded a state funeral.

Public life

Madsen won the seat of

at the

1947 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 May 1947 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election was the first that the Labor government had contested under Premier Ned Hanlon, who had been in ...

s, defeating the sitting member, John Healy of the Labor Party. He held the seat until his death in 1963. During his time in parliament he held the following ministerial portfolios: * Minister for Agriculture and Stock - 1957-1960 * Minister for Public Lands and Irrigation - 1960 * Minister for Agriculture and Forestry - 1960-1963 Madsen was also a councilor on the

Shire of Glengallan The Shire of Glengallan was a local government area south and east of the regional centre of Warwick in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. The shire, administered from Warwick, covered an area of , and existed as a local government ent ...

in 1942. He was President of the Dairymen's Organisation and Eastern Downs District Council, and Deputy State President and Queensland Representative on the Australian Dairy Farmers Federation.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Madsen, Otto Ottosen Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1904 births 1963 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland 20th-century Australian politicians