Wellington Lee AM

Order of Australia

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, OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 is an Australian pharmacist and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne

Melbourne

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Lee was born in Darwin

Darwin, Northern Territory

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 in the Northern Territory

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, and attended Darwin Public School, Longreach State School, Ingham Rural School, Toowoomba Grammar School and finally the Royal Victorian College of Pharmacy. He has worked as a pharmacist since 1950. From 1978 to 1980 he was commissioner of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, and was a Melbourne City Councillor

City of Melbourne

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 from 1977 to 1990 and from 1996 to 2004, serving as Deputy Lord Mayor for some of that period.

Lee contested three federal elections: in 1974

Australian federal election, 1974

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, contesting Kooyong

Division of Kooyong

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 for the Labor Party

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; in 1998, as third on the Unity Party

Unity Party (Australia)

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's Senate

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 ticket; and in 2001 at the top of the Unity ticket. He was unsuccessful on all of these occasions.