Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1934–1937
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council
between 1934 and 1937. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1931 triennial election with terms expiring in 1937, while the other half were elected at the 1934 triennial election with terms expiring in 1940.
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 1934 and 1937. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1931 triennial election with terms expiring in 1937, while the other half were elected at the 1934 triennial election with terms expiring in 1940.
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 | 1940 | 1912–1952 |
James Miller Balfour | 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... |
Gippsland | 1940 | 1936–1943 |
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 East | 1940 | 1914–1931; 1934–1952 |
George Bolster | United Australia | Wellington | 1940 | 1934–1946 |
Alfred Chandler | United Australia | South Eastern | 1937 | 1919–1935 |
Gilbert Chandler Gilbert Chandler Sir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, CMG, KBE was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who served in the Bolte Ministry in Victoria.... |
United Australia | South Eastern | 1937 | 1935–1973 |
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 | 1940 | 1929–1935 |
Henry Cohen | United Australia | Melbourne | 1937 | 1921–1937 |
Archibald Crofts | United Australia | Melbourne South | 1940 | 1935–1942 |
George Martley Davis | United Australia | Gippsland | 1937 | 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:... |
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:... |
1940 | 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 | North Western | 1937 | 1919–1949 |
Hon John Harris | Country | North Eastern | 1940 | 1920–1946 |
Percival Inchbold | Country | North Eastern | 1937 | 1935–1953 |
Hon John Percy Jones | United Australia | South Western | 1940 | 1910–1940 |
Herbert Keck | United Australia | Bendigo | 1937 | 1921–1937 |
Esmond Kiernan | 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:... |
1940 | 1919–1940 |
Richard Kilpatrick | Country | Northern | 1940 | 1928–1946 |
Lt Col George Lansell | United Australia | Bendigo | 1940 | 1928–1952 |
Gordon McArthur | United Australia | South Western | 1937 | 1931–1965 |
Martin McGregor | United Australia | Gippsland | 1940 | 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 |
Hon Henry Pye | Country | North Western | 1940 | 1932–1942 |
Marcus Saltau | United Australia | Western | 1940 | 1924–1940 |
Herbert Henry Smith | United Australia | Melbourne | 1940 | 1921–1935 |
Hon George Tuckett | Country | Northern | 1937 | 1925–1955 |
William Tyner | United Australia | South Eastern | 1940 | 1922–1940 |
George Wales | United Australia | Melbourne | 1940 | 1936–1938 |
Hon Robert Henry Williams | Independent | Melbourne West | 1940 | 1922–1938 |
William Williamson | Ind. Country | Western | 1937 | 1931–1937 |
Albert Zwar | Country | North Eastern | 1937 | 1922–1935 |
- On 12 February 1935, Alfred Chandler, UAP MLC for South Eastern Province, died. His son, UAP candidate Gilbert ChandlerGilbert ChandlerSir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, CMG, KBE was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who served in the Bolte Ministry in Victoria....
, won the resulting by-election in March 1935. - On 23 February 1935, Albert Zwar, Country MLC for North Eastern Province, died. Country candidate Percival Inchbold won the resulting by-election in April 1935.
- On 25 November 1935, Herbert Henry Smith, UAP MLC for Melbourne Province, died. UAP candidate George Wales won the resulting by-election in May 1936.
- In February 1935, 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....
, UAP MLC for Melbourne South Province, resigned to contest CaulfieldElectoral district of Caulfield-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories* List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly-External links:*...
in the 1935 Assembly election. UAP candidate Archibald Crofts won the resulting by-election in March 1935. - On 17 August 1936, Martin McGregor, UAP MLC for Gippsland Province, died. Country candidate James Miller Balfour won the resulting by-election in October 1936.
Sources
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