Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1937–1940
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council
between 1937 and 1940. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1934 triennial election with terms expiring in 1940, while the other half were elected at the 1937 triennial election with terms expiring in 1943.
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 1937 and 1940. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1934 triennial election with terms expiring in 1940, while the other half were elected at the 1937 triennial election with terms expiring in 1943.
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 |
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 | Southern | 1943 | 1935–1973 |
Percy Clarey Percy Clarey Percy James Clarey was an Australian trade union leader and politician.-Early life:Clarey was born at Bairnsdale, Victoria, the fifth child of general agent Francis William Clarey and Jessie Littlejohn Clarey, née Lawson. The family soon moved to Melbourne, and Percy attended South Yarra State... |
Labor | Doutta Galla Doutta Galla Province Doutta Galla 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 Doutta Galla Province:... |
1943 | 1937–1949 |
Hon Sir Frank Clarke | United Australia | Monash Monash Province Monash 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 Monash Province:-References:... |
1943 | 1913–1955 |
Archibald Crofts | United Australia | Melbourne South | 1940 | 1935–1942 |
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:... |
1943 | 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 | 1943 | 1904–1913; 1917–1948 |
Charles Gartside | United Australia | South Eastern | 1943 | 1937–1955 |
Hon George Goudie | Country | North Western | 1943 | 1919–1949 |
Hon Sir John Harris | Country | North Eastern | 1940 | 1920–1946 |
Percival Inchbold | Country/McEwen | North Eastern | 1943 | 1935–1953 |
Hon John Percy Jones | United Australia | South Western | 1940 | 1910–1940 |
Paul Jones Paul Jones (Australian politician) Paul Jones was an Australian politician. Born in Gaffneys Creek, Victoria, he was educated at South Melbourne College before becoming a goldminer and teacher. He also studied at the University of Melbourne for an MA. In 1928, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in bizarre... |
Labor | Melbourne | 1940 | 1938–1958 |
James Kennedy James Kennedy (Australian politician) The Honourable Sir James Arthur "Jim" Kennedy Kt was an Australian politician and sportsman. Kennedy served as a minister in the Dunstan and Hollway Victorian state governments in the 1940s. He played Australian rules football for Essendon and Carlton during the early 1900s... |
United Australia | Higinbotham | 1943 | 1937–1954 |
Pat Kennelly | Labor | Melbourne West | 1946 | 1938–1952 |
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 |
John Lienhop | Country | Bendigo | 1943 | 1937–1951 |
Gordon McArthur | United Australia | South Western | 1943 | 1931–1965 |
William MacAulay | Country/McEwen | Gippsland | 1943 | 1937–1957 |
Daniel McNamara | Labor | Melbourne | 1943 | 1916; 1917–1947 |
Herbert Olney | United Australia | Melbourne North | 1943 | 1931–1943 |
Alfred Pittard | United Australia | Ballarat | 1943 | 1931–1949 |
Hon Henry Pye | Country | North Western | 1940 | 1932–1942 |
Leonard Rodda Leonard Rodda Leonard Roy Rodda was an Australian politician.Born in Tarranyurk to farmer Frederick Rodda and Elizabeth Mary Curnow, he attended Tarranyurk State School before working on the family farm... |
Country | Western | 1943 | 1937–1946 |
Marcus Saltau | United Australia/Ind. | Western | 1940 | 1924–1940 |
Hon George Tuckett | Country | Northern | 1943 | 1925–1955 |
William Tyner | United Australia | South Eastern | 1940 | 1922–1940 |
Sir George Wales | United Australia | Melbourne | 1940 | 1936–1938 |
Hon Robert Henry Williams | Independent | Melbourne West | 1940 | 1922–1938 |
- On 17 March 1938, Robert Henry Williams, Independent (formerly Labor) MLC for Melbourne West ProvinceMelbourne West ProvinceMelbourne 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:...
, died. Labor candidate Pat Kennelly won the resulting by-election in May 1938. - In July 1938, Sir George Wales, UAP MLC for Melbourne Province, resigned over an alleged conflict of interest. Labor candidate Paul JonesPaul Jones (Australian politician)Paul Jones was an Australian politician. Born in Gaffneys Creek, Victoria, he was educated at South Melbourne College before becoming a goldminer and teacher. He also studied at the University of Melbourne for an MA. In 1928, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in bizarre...
won the resulting by-election in September 1938.
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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