Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1928–1931
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council
between 1928 and 1931. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1925 triennial election with terms expiring in 1931, while the other half were elected at the 1928 triennial election with terms expiring in 1934.
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council, is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia; the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to...
between 1928 and 1931. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1925 triennial election with terms expiring in 1931, while the other half were elected at the 1928 triennial election with terms expiring in 1934.
Name | Party | Province | Term expires | Term of office |
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William Angliss | Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime... |
Southern | 1934 | 1912–1952 |
William Beckett William Beckett (Australian politician) William James Beckett CBE was an Australian politician.Born in Prahran to Irish-born taxi proprietor Samuel Beckett and Scottish-born Margaret Cameron, he attended both state and private schools before becoming a second-hand furniture dealer at Fitzroy with his brother Henry... |
Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
Melbourne North Melbourne North Province Melbourne North Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne North Province:... |
1931 | 1914–1931; 1934–1952 |
Alexander Bell | Nationalist | Wellington | 1931 | 1917–1931 |
Frederick Brawn | Nationalist | Wellington | 1934 | 1907–1934 |
Alfred Chandler | Nationalist | South Eastern | 1931 | 1919–1935 |
Hon Sir Frank Clarke | Nationalist | Melbourne South | 1931 | 1913–1955 |
Russell Clarke | Nationalist | Southern | 1931 | 1910–1937 |
Harold Cohen Harold Cohen (politician) Brigadier Harold Edward Cohen CMG, DSO was an Australian soldier, lawyer and, like his grandfather Edward Cohen, a Victorian State politician.... |
Nationalist | Melbourne South | 1934 | 1929–1935 |
Hon Henry Cohen | Nationalist | Melbourne | 1931 | 1921–1937 |
George Martley Davis | Nationalist | Gippsland | 1931 | 1917–1937 |
James Herbert Disney | Labor | Melbourne West Melbourne West Province Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne West Province:... |
1931 | 1916–1943 |
Clifden Eager | Nationalist | East Yarra East Yarra Province East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for East Yarra Province:... |
1934 | 1930–1958 |
Hon William Edgar William Edgar William Edgar is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.He is graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics.... |
Nationalist | East Yarra | 1931 | 1904–1913; 1917–1948 |
Norman Falkiner | Nationalist | Melbourne South | 1934 | 1928–1929 |
Hon George Goudie | Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is... |
North Western | 1931 | 1919–1949 |
John Harris | Country | North Eastern | 1934 | 1920–1946 |
Howard Hitchcock Howard Hitchcock For the painter see D. Howard HitchcockHoward Hitchcock was mayor of the City of Geelong in Victoria, Australia from 1917 to 1922, and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1925 until 1931... |
Nationalist | South Western | 1931 | 1925–1931 |
Hon John Percy Jones | Labor | Melbourne East | 1934 | 1910–1940 |
Herbert Keck | Nationalist | Bendigo | 1931 | 1921–1937 |
Esmond Kiernan | Labor | Melbourne North | 1934 | 1919–1940 |
Richard Kilpatrick | Country | Northern | 1934 | 1928–1946 |
Lt Col George Lansell | Nationalist | Bendigo | 1934 | 1928–1952 |
William McCann William McCann (politician) William John McCann was an Australian politician.Born in Kerang to farmer David James and Isabella McCurdy, both Irish-born, he became a dairy farmer at Lake Charm, where he helped to establish an aged care home to which he later retired... |
Country | North Western | 1934 | 1928–1931 |
Martin McGregor | Nationalist | Gippsland | 1934 | 1922–1936 |
Daniel McNamara | Labor | Melbourne East | 1931 | 1916; 1917–1947 |
Robert Menzies Robert Menzies Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia.... |
Nationalist | East Yarra | 1934 | 1928–1929 |
Horace Richardson | Nationalist | South Western | 1934 | 1912–1934 |
Marcus Saltau | Nationalist | Western | 1934 | 1924–1940 |
Herbert Henry Smith | Nationalist | Melbourne | 1934 | 1921–1935 |
George Tuckett | Country | Northern | 1931 | 1925–1955 |
William Tyner | Nationalist | South Eastern | 1934 | 1922–1940 |
Edward James White | Nationalist | Western | 1931 | 1907–1931 |
Hon Robert Henry Williams | Labor | Melbourne West | 1934 | 1922–1938 |
Albert Zwar | Country | North Eastern | 1937 | 1922–1935 |
- In October 1928, Robert MenziesRobert MenziesSir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....
, Nationalist MLC for East Yarra ProvinceEast Yarra ProvinceEast Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for East Yarra Province:...
, resigned to contest NunawadingElectoral district of NunawadingThe electoral district of Nunawading was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Nunawading:...
at the 1929 Assembly election. Nationalist candidate Clifden Eager won the resulting by-election in February 1930. - On 11 May 1929, Norman Falkiner, Nationalist MLC for Melbourne South Province, died. Nationalist candidate Harold CohenHarold Cohen (politician)Brigadier Harold Edward Cohen CMG, DSO was an Australian soldier, lawyer and, like his grandfather Edward Cohen, a Victorian State politician....
won the resulting by-election in June 1929.
Sources
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