Daniel Eric Kent is a former Australian politician.

Kent was born at Areegra

Areegra, Victoria

Areegra is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on Rupanyup Road in the Shire of Yarriambiack.Areegra Post Office opened on 1 October 1880 and closed in 1981.-References:...

 near Warracknabeal to D. Kent, a wheat and wool grower, and Sophie Elizabeth, née Menzel. He attended Areegra State School and farmed on the family property until 1949, after which he farmed at Yannathan, first dairy and then beef from 1973. On 18 April 1949 he married Bette Myra Wallis, a journalist, with whom he had three children. He was active in various graziers' associations, including the Victorian Wheat and Woolgrowers Association, the Victorian Dairy Farmers' Association, the Australian Primary Producers' Union and the Victorian Farmers' and Graziers' Association. He was also a member of the Gippsland

Gippsland

Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south...

 Anglican Synod

Synod

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. A member of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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, he spent ten years as president of the McMillan federal electorate

Division of McMillan

The Division of McMillan is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the western part of the Gippsland region, which extends for the length of Victoria's eastern Bass Strait coastline. It includes the outer south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Pakenham, and also...

 assembly, contesting the seat himself in 1963 and 1966. In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council

Victorian Legislative Council

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 for Gippsland Province. He was defeated in 1976, but returned to the Council in 1979 for Chelsea Province

Chelsea Province

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. He held the seat until 1985, when he retired.