Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1931–1934
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council
between 1931 and 1934. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1928 triennial election with terms expiring in 1934, while the other half were elected at the 1931 triennial election with terms expiring in 1937.
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 1931 and 1934. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1928 triennial election with terms expiring in 1934, while the other half were elected at the 1931 triennial election with terms expiring in 1937.
Name | Party | Province | Term expires | Term of office |
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William Angliss | United Australia United Australia Party The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia... |
Southern | 1934 | 1912–1952 |
Frederick Brawn | United Australia | Wellington | 1934 | 1907–1934 |
Alfred Chandler | United Australia | South Eastern | 1937 | 1919–1935 |
Hon Sir Frank Clarke | United Australia | Melbourne South | 1937 | 1913–1955 |
Russell Clarke | United Australia | Southern | 1937 | 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.... |
United Australia | Melbourne South | 1934 | 1929–1935 |
Henry Cohen | United Australia | Melbourne | 1937 | 1921–1937 |
George Martley Davis | United Australia | Gippsland | 1937 | 1917–1937 |
James Herbert Disney | 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 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:... |
1937 | 1916–1943 |
Clifden Eager | United Australia | 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.... |
United Australia | East Yarra | 1937 | 1904–1913; 1917–1948 |
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 | 1937 | 1919–1949 |
John Harris | Country | North Eastern | 1934 | 1920–1946 |
Hon John Percy Jones | Labor/United Australia | Melbourne East | 1934 | 1910–1940 |
Herbert Keck | United Australia | Bendigo | 1937 | 1921–1937 |
Esmond Kiernan | Labor/Independent | 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:... |
1934 | 1919–1940 |
Richard Kilpatrick | Country | Northern | 1934 | 1928–1946 |
Lt Col George Lansell | United Australia | Bendigo | 1934 | 1928–1952 |
Gordon McArthur | United Australia | South Western | 1937 | 1931–1965 |
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 | United Australia | Gippsland | 1934 | 1922–1936 |
Daniel McNamara | Labor | Melbourne East | 1937 | 1916; 1917–1947 |
Herbert Olney | United Australia | Melbourne North | 1937 | 1931–1943 |
Alfred Pittard | United Australia | Wellington | 1937 | 1931–1949 |
Henry Pye | Country | North Western | 1934 | 1932–1942 |
Horace Richardson | United Australia | South Western | 1934 | 1912–1934 |
Marcus Saltau | United Australia | Western | 1934 | 1924–1940 |
Herbert Henry Smith | United Australia | Melbourne | 1934 | 1921–1935 |
George Tuckett | Country | Northern | 1937 | 1925–1955 |
William Tyner | United Australia | South Eastern | 1934 | 1922–1940 |
Hon Robert Henry Williams | Labor/Independent | Melbourne West | 1934 | 1922–1938 |
William Williamson | Ind. Country | Western | 1937 | 1931–1937 |
Albert Zwar | Country | North Eastern | 1937 | 1922–1935 |
- In October 1931, William McCannWilliam 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 MLC for North Western Province, resigned to contest the seat of WimmeraDivision of WimmeraThe Division of Wimmera was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was named after the Wimmera region in which it was located. It originally encompassed the towns of Mildura, Swan Hill and Warracknabeal, but by the time it was abolished in 1977, it had drifted south and grown...
at the 1931 federal electionAustralian federal election, 1931Federal elections were held in Australia on 19 December 1931. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...
. Country candidate Henry Pye won the resulting by-election in March 1932.
Sources
- Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of VictoriaParliament of VictoriaThe Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly...
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