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James McColl
James Hiers McColl (31 January 1844 – 20 February 1929) was an Australian politician.
McColl was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, the son of Hugh McColl, and migrated with his family to Australia in 1853, but his mother died before...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1844
Date of death:
- Feb 20, 1929 (age 85 years)
Richard Abbott
Richard Hartley Smith Abbott (1859 – 28 February 1940) was an Australian politician.
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, he was educated at Bendigo High School and then at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He became a businessman, especially in...
Date of birth:
- 1859
Date of death:
- Feb 28, 1940 (age 81 years)
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Stephen Barker
Stephen Barker (1845 – 21 June 1924) was an English-born Australian politician. Born in London, he received a primary education before becoming a tailor. He migrated to Australia where he became an organiser of the Tramways Union. He served as...
Date of birth:
- 1845
Date of death:
- Jun 21, 1924 (age 79 years)
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Albert Blakey
Albert Edward Howarth Blakey (9 November 1879 – 4 July 1935) was an Australian politician. Born in Balmoral, Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a clerk, and an official with the Clerks' Union. Blakely also served as secretary...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1879
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 1935 (age 55 years)
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Robert Best
Sir Robert Wallace Best KCMG (18 June 1856 – 27 March 1946) was an Australian politician.
Best was born in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood and educated at Templeton's school, Fitzroy. He left school at 13 and became a clerk in a printing office...
Date of birth:
- Jun 18, 1856
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 1946 (age 89 years)
John Barnes
John Barnes (17 July 1868 – 31 January 1938) was a union official and Australian federal politician representing the Labor Party.
Barnes was born at Hamilton, South Australia the son of John Thomas Barnes, a drover who had emigrated from Somerset,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 17, 1868
Date of death:
- Jan 31, 1938 (age 69 years)
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John Leckie
John William Leckie (14 October 1872 – 25 September 1947) was an Australian farmer turned politician. Leckie was born at Alexandra, Victoria and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne.
He played Australian rules football for Fitzroy Football Club ...
Date of birth:
- Oct 14, 1872
Date of death:
- Sep 25, 1947 (age 74 years)
William Kinsey Bolton
Lieutenant Colonel William Kinsey Bolton CBE VD (2 November 1861 – 8 September 1941) was the commanding officer of the Australian 8th Battalion AIF during World War I for the landings at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He was a Nationalist Senator from...
Date of birth:
- Nov 2, 1861
Date of death:
- Sep 8, 1941 (age 79 years)
David Andrew
David Andrew (10 November 1866 – 18 November 1928) was an Australian politician. Born in Castlemaine, Victoria, he was educated at state schools before becoming an apprentice civil engineer. Later he was an auctioneer in Bendigo. He was elected to...
Date of birth:
- Nov 10, 1866
Date of death:
- Nov 18, 1928 (age 62 years)
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Thomas Brennan
Thomas Cornelius Brennan KC (1866 – 3 January 1944) was an Australian journalist, lawyer and conservative politician who was elected to the Australian Senate.
Brennan was born at Upper Emu Creek (?), near Bendigo, Victoria and was an older brother...
Date of birth:
- 1866
Date of death:
- Jan 3, 1944 (age 78 years)
Party:
Donald Cameron
Donald James "Don" Cameron (19 January 1878 - 20 August 1962), Australian politician, was born in Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne of working-class parents and was educated in at the City Road Primary School in South Melbourne and South Melbourne...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1878
Date of death:
- Aug 20, 1962 (age 84 years)
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Magnus Cormack
Sir Magnus Cameron Cormack KBE (12 February 1906 – 26 November 1994) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.
Born in Caithness-shire, he migrated to Australia as a child, and was educated at St Peter's College in Adelaide. He became a farmer and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1906
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1994 (age 88 years)
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Frank McManus
Francis Patrick Vincent McManus (27 February 1905 – 28 December 1983), Australian politician, was the last leader of the parliamentary Democratic Labor Party and a prominent figure in Australian politics for 30 years.
McManus was born in North...
Date of birth:
- Feb 27, 1905
Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1983 (age 78 years)
Samuel Cohen
Samuel Herbert Cohen (26 October 1918 – 7 October 1969) was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne and then the University of Melbourne. He served in the military from 1942 to 1943 and became a...
Date of birth:
- Oct 26, 1918
Date of death:
- Oct 7, 1969 (age 50 years)
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Marie Breen
Dame Marie Breen, DBE (3 November 1902 – 1993) was an Australian Senator representing the Liberal Party of Australia in the state of Victoria.
She was born in St. Kilda, Melbourne. and christened Marie Freda Chamberlin. She attended St Michael's...
Date of birth:
- Nov 3, 1902
Date of death:
- 1993 (age 90 years)
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John Gorton
Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002), Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.
Sir John Grey Gorton was born in Melbourne, the illegitimate son of Alice Sinn, the daughter of a railway worker,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1911
Date of death:
- May 19, 2002 (age 90 years)
David Hamer
David John Hamer (5 September 1923 – 14 January 2002) was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at Geelong Grammar School and then the Royal Australian Naval College. He served in the military 1940-45, 1957-62, and 1964-65. He...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1923
Date of death:
- Jan 14, 2002 (age 78 years)
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John Button
John Norman Button (30 June 1933 – 8 April 2008) was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. He was notable for The Button Car Plan, which involved modernising Australia's car industry by...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1933
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 2008 (age 74 years)
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Jean Melzer
Jean Isobelle Melzer (born 7 February 1926) was an Australian Senator representing the Australian Labor Party and the state of Victoria. She was elected on 18 May 1974 she served two terms, she was defeated at 1980 elections, and her final term...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1926 (age 83 years)
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Don Chipp
Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 1925 – 28 August 2006) was an Australian politician, and the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats.
Donald Leslie Chipp was born in Melbourne and educated at Northcote High School and Melbourne University,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1925
Date of death:
- Aug 28, 2006 (age 81 years)
Robert Ray
Robert Francis Ray (born 8 April 1947), Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Senate from July 1981 to May 2008, representing the state of Victoria.
He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at Monash...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Olive Zakharov
Alice Olive Zakharov (March 19, 1929 - March 6, 1995) was an Australian politician. Zakharov was elected as an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate relatively late in life, in 1983.
Former Senator Graham Richardson, a leader of the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1929
Date of death:
- Mar 6, 1995 (age 66 years)
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Jim Short
James Robert "Jim" Short (born 7 December 1936) is an Australian politician and diplomat.
Born in Shepparton, Victoria, he attended the University of Melbourne before becoming a public servant with the Treasury Department. He was Executive Secretary...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1936 (age 73 years)
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Barney Cooney
Bernard Cornelius "Barney" Cooney (born 11 July 1934) is a former Australian politician. Born in Currie, Tasmania, he was educated at the University of Melbourne before becoming a barrister. In 1984, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1934 (age 75 years)
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Richard Alston
Richard Kenneth Robert Alston (born 19 December 1941) was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1986 to 2004, representing the state of Victoria.
Born in Perth, Western Australia, he was educated at the Jesuit Xavier College, the University...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Julian McGauran
Julian McGauran (born 5 March 1957), Australian politician, is a member of the Australian Senate, representing the state of Victoria. Elected as a member of the National Party, he resigned from the Nationals and joined the Liberal Party of Australia...
Date of birth:
- Mar 5, 1957 (age 52 years)
Kay Patterson
Kay Christine Lesley Patterson was an Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1987 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria.
Patterson was born (on 21st November, 1944) in Sydney, New South Wales, and was...
Date of birth:
- Nov 21, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Rod Kemp
Charles Roderick "Rod" Kemp (born 21 December 1944) is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria.
Kemp was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1944 (age 65 years)
Party:
Kim Carr
Kim John Carr (born 2 July 1955) has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since April 1993, representing the state of Victoria. He was elected to the Senate at the March 1993 election, and was due to take his seat on 1 July...
Date of birth:
- Jul 2, 1955 (age 54 years)
Party:
Judith Troeth
Judith Mary Troeth (born 3 August 1940) has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1993, representing the state of Victoria. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College, and later at the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1940 (age 69 years)
Party:
Jacinta Collins
Jacinta Mary Ann Collins (born 4 September 1962), is an Australian Labor Party (ALP) member of the Australian Senate. She served from May 1995 to 2005, and again from May 2008, representing the state of Victoria.
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 4, 1962 (age 47 years)
Party:
Lyn Allison
Lynette Fay "Lyn" Allison (born 21 October 1946), is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria. She was the last federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Democrats...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1946 (age 63 years)
Party:
Karen Synon
Karen Margaret Synon (born 15 September 1959) was an Australian Senator for the state of Victoria. Synon was appointed to the Senate on 13 May 1997 as a result of Jim Short's resignation, however she was defeated at the 1998 election and her term...
Date of birth:
- Sep 15, 1959 (age 50 years)
Party:
Tsebin Tchen
Tsebin Tchen (born March 10, 1940) was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1998 to 2005, representing the state of Victoria.
Tchen was born in Chungking, China, wartime capital of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (more commonly...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1940 (age 69 years)
Party:
Jan McLucas
Jan Elizabeth McLucas (born 27 March 1958) is an Australian politician, representing Queensland and the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Senate. She rose to become a Parliamentary Secretary in the Rudd government before resigning in the wake...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1958 (age 51 years)
Party:
Gavin Marshall
Gavin Mark Marshall (born 25 March 1960), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2002, representing the state of Victoria.
Marshall was born in Melbourne and was an electrician and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1960 (age 49 years)
Party:
Mitch Fifield
Mitchell Peter (Mitch) Fifield (born 16 January 1967), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since March 2004, representing Victoria. He was born in Sydney and was educated at Sydney University, where he graduated...
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1967 (age 43 years)
Party:
Steve Fielding
Steve Fielding (born 17 October 1960), is a Victorian Senator and the Federal parliamentary leader of the Family First Party in Australia.
Fielding was born on 17 October, 1960, in the Australian state capital of Melbourne, where he was raised in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 17, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Michael Ronaldson
Michael John Clyde Ronaldson (born 13 February 1954) is an Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing the state of Victoria.
Ronaldson was born on 13 February 1954 in Ballarat, Victoria....
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1954 (age 55 years)
Party:
Stephen Conroy
Stephen Michael Conroy (born 18 January 1963 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, near Norwich) is an Australian politician and the current Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in the Rudd Labor Government. He has been an...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1963 (age 47 years)
Party:
Helen Kroger
Helen Kroger is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Victoria. She was the Victorian state president of the Liberal Party from 2003 to 2006, and oversaw the...
Party:
Scott Ryan
Scott Michael Ryan (born 12 May 1973) is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Victoria.
Ryan was elected to serve a six-year term in the Senate at the 2007 federal...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1973 (age 36 years)
