Archie Galbraith Cameron (22 March 1895 - 9 August 1956), Australian politician, was born in Happy Valley, South Australia, and was the son of a Scottish-born farmer. He was educated at state schools and worked on his father's farm at Happy Valley until 1916, when he joined the First Australian Imperial Force and fought on the Western Front. After World War I Cameron took up farming at Loxton, and became active in the newly formed Country Party. ...
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Archie Galbraith Cameron (22 March 1895 - 9 August 1956), Australian politician, was born in Happy Valley, South Australia, and was the son of a Scottish-born farmer. He was educated at state schools and worked on his father's farm at Happy Valley until 1916, when he joined the First Australian Imperial Force and fought on the Western Front. After World War I Cameron took up farming at Loxton, and became active in the newly formed Country Party. In 1922, he married Margaret Eileen Walsh.
In 1927, Cameron was elected to the seat of Wooroora in the South Australian House of Assembly. In 1934, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the rural South Australian electorate of Barker. Cameron was an extreme conservative with a violent temper, and not really suited to parliamentary life. But in 1937 he was appointed an assistant minister in the government of Joseph Lyons, and in 1938 he became Postmaster-General. He temporarily suspended radio 2KY's licence because he objected to...
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