William Logan Dart (25 August 1877 – 17 January 1969) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Dart was born at

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, the son of the John Dart and his wife Maria Jane (née Logan). He was educated at

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and in 1893 moved to

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where, along with his brother, he took up a selection. He later acquired an additional 180 acres where he became one of the leading growers of

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in the state. It was also later used as his homestead after his marriage. On 21 August 1907 Dart married Edith Maude Nielsen (died 1991 aged 104)Edith Maude Dart ( – 1991)
– Heaven Address. Retrieved 30 April 2016. and together had two sons and two daughters. Dart died at

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in January 1969 and was cremated at the

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.William Logan Dart ( – 1969)
– Heaven Address. Retrieved 30 April 2016.

Public life

Dart was elected to the

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in 1903 and was the town chairman in 1911 when there was a change of shire boundaries and he was then elected as a councilor to the Shire of Laidley. He remained a councilor there until 1921 when he moved to Wynnum and became a

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. He was soon elected to the

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and on the creation of the Greater City of Brisbane became the first member for the ward of Wynnum. He was the member until shortly after winning election to the Queensland Parliament. At the

1938 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 2 April 1938 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government of Premier William Forgan Smith was seeking a third term in office. During the previous ...

, Dart, representing the United Australia Party, won the seat of

, defeating the sitting member, John Donnelly. He held the seat until

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when, by then standing as an

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, he lost to Bill Gunn of the Labor Party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dart, William Logan Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1877 births 1969 deaths United Australia Party members of the Parliament of Queensland