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Charles Victor Thompson (10 September 1885 – 11 May 1968) was an Australian politician and journalist. Thompson was elected to the
Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the ...
seat of
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at the 1922 election, representing the Country Party of Australia. He was a Minister without portfolio in the
fourth Lyons ministry The Fourth Lyons ministry ( United Australia–Country Coalition) was the 23rd ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 10th Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons. The Fourth Lyons ministry succeeded the Third Lyons minist ...
and the Page ministry from November 1937 until April 1940. He lost his seat at the September 1940 election to another member of the Country Party, Joe Abbott.


Early life

Thompson was born in
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on 10 September 1885, the son of Mary Annie (née Lewis) and Charles Thompson; his father was a carpenter. He was educated at public schools, including the Cleveland Street Public School.


Personal life

Thompson married Emma Bell in 1907, with whom he had one daughter. He died in
Ashfield, New South Wales Ashfield is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Ashfield is about 8 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district. Ashfield's population is highly multicultural. Its urban density is ...
, on 11 May 1968, aged 82.


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Australian Dictionary of Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Victor 1885 births 1968 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for New England Members of the Australian House of Representatives 20th-century Australian politicians