Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1954–1956

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...

from 22 May 1954 to 21 May 1956. The chamber had 30 seats made up of ten provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election.

Name	Party	Province	Term expires	Years in office
Charles Barker	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...	North	1958	1952–1956
Norm Baxter	Country National Party of Western Australia The National Party of Western Australia is a political party in Western Australia. It is affiliated with the National Party of Australia but maintains a separate structure and identity....	Central	1958	1950–1958; 1960–1983
George Bennetts	Labor	South-East	1958	1946–1965
Robert Boylen	Labor	South-East	1956	1947–1955
Les Craig	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	South-West	1956	1934–1956
John Cunningham	Liberal	South-East	1956	1948–1954; 1955–1962
Evan Davies	Labor	West	1956	1947–1963
Leslie Diver	Country	Central	1956	1952–1974
Gilbert Fraser	Labor	West	1960	1928–1958
Jim Garrigan	Labor	South-East	1960	1954–1971
Sir Frank Gibson Frank Gibson (politician) Sir Frank Ernest Gibson was an Australian politician.Born at Egerton, Victoria, to Irish-born policeman Alexander Gibson and Louisa Herring, he attended Grenville College and the School of Mines at Ballarat before moving to Western Australia as a qualified pharmacist, setting up a business in...	Liberal	Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...	1956	1942–1956
Arthur Griffith Arthur Griffith (Australian politician) Sir Arthur Frederick Griffith was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1950 until 1953 representing the seat of Canning, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the Suburban and North Metropolitan provinces from...	Liberal	Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...	1958	1953–1977
William Hall	Labor	North-East	1958	1938–1963
Harry Hearn	Liberal	Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...	1960	1948–1956
Eric Heenan Eric Heenan (politician) Born: 29 April 1900, Kanowna, Western Australia to Michael Joseph Heenan and Josephine Frances .Educated CBC Wakefield Street Adelaide, South Australia,Articled to Neville Heenan in NorthamPracticed Law in the Western Australian goldfields and Perth...	Labor	North-East	1956	1936–1968
Charles Henning	Liberal	South-West	1960	1951–1955
James Hislop	Liberal	Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...	1958	1941–1971
Ruby Hutchinson	Labor	Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to...	1960	1954–1971
Arthur Jones	Country	Midland	1956	1950–1967
Sir Charles Latham Charles Latham Sir Charles Latham was an Australian politician born in Hythe, Kent in England.- Biography :Latham became an orphan in early childhood when his parents Thomas Latham and Isabella died before the age of 8...	Country	Central	1960	1946–1960
Frederick Lavery	Labor	West	1958	1952–1971
Les Logan	Country	Midland	1960	1947–1974
Anthony Loton	Country	South	1958	1944–1965
James Murray	Liberal	South-West	1958	1951–1965
Hugh Roche	Country	South	1960	1940–1960
Charles Simpson	Liberal	Midland	1958	1946–1963
Harry Strickland	Labor	North	1956	1950–1970
John Teahan	Labor	North-East	1960	1954–1965
Jack Thomson	Country	South	1956	1950–1974
Keith Watson	Liberal	Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...	1956	1948–1968
William Willesee	Labor	North	1960	1954–1974
Francis Drake Willmott	Liberal	South-West	1960	1955–1974

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