Ronald Alfred St Clair Brewer (8 April 1921 – 16 June 2003) was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for Goulburn in the

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from 1965 to 1984. Born in Watsons Bay,

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to farmer Alfred George Brewer and Doris Griffin, he was educated at Gunning, Goulburn and

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, leaving school at the age of 14. He became a rural worker before enlisting in the armed forces in 1938, serving in the 7th Light Horse Regiment of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade until 1940, when he joined the

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. He was discharged as medically unfit in 1942, and joined the Second Australian Imperial Force, being stationed in

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as a warrant officer. He was discharged from the armed forces in 1946. Brewer married Dorothy Sorrell on 16 November 1946, with whom he would have six children. As an ex-serviceman he was settled with the Green Hills property near

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in 1948, and he became captain of the local Bush Fire Brigade. In 1959 he was elected to Mulwaree Shire Council, becoming president in 1962; he served until 1965. In 1965, Brewer was elected to the

as the Country Party member for Goulburn, winning the Labor-held seat after a three-cornered contest with both Labor and the Liberal Party. He held the seat easily until 1974, when he resigned to contest the federal seat of Eden-Monaro. Narrowly defeated by sitting Labor MP

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, Brewer contested the by-election for his old state seat and was re-elected. Redistributions weakened his margin in subsequent years, and he retired in 1984. Brewer died in Goulburn in 2003.

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