Robert Wilfred Holt was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician. Born in Launceston, Tasmania

Launceston, Tasmania

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, he was educated in Melbourne

Melbourne

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 at Scotch College

Scotch College, Melbourne

Scotch College, Melbourne is an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

 and the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

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. He became a barrister in 1940. In 1945 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Victorian Legislative Assembly

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 as the Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 member for Portland

Electoral district of Portland

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. He was defeated in 1947, but re-elected in 1950. He was Minister for Lands and Social Settlement from 1952-53. In 1955 he transferred to federal politics, winning the Australian House of Representatives

Australian House of Representatives

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 seat of Darebin

Division of Darebin

The Division of Darebin was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1949 and abolished in 1969, and was named for the Darebin Creek. It was located in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, including Heidelberg, Preston, Reservoir and Thornbury. It was a fairly safe...

. Just three years later, in 1958, he retired from politics. Holt died in 1985.