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Electorates
- MLC South-East* Province 22 May 1962–21 May 1980
Office
- Labor Whip in Legislative Council 1965–1971
- Minister for Local Government and Chief Secretary 3 March 1971–8 April 1974
Committees
- Member Joint Printing Committee 1965–1971
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Personal Information |
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2 April 1905 |
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Northam, Western Australia |
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25 May 1998 |
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Wembley, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA |
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Son of Stokes Stubbs, shopkeeper, and Mary Jane Marshall |
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Married 3 January 1931, Bunbury to Violet Gammage, daughter of James Henry Gammage and Ada Counsel
Children: two sons and one daughter
Widowed 30 July 1987 |
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Not stated |
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West Northam State School, Norseman and Kalgoorlie School of Mines and Perth Technical College
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Miner, underground supervisor and health inspector |
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Miner at Collie 1927–1931, cordial manufacturer briefly
Miner at Kalgoorlie 1932–1937, then miner and underground supervisor in Norseman 1937–1957
Health Inspector for Shire of Dundas at Norseman 1957–1962 |
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Member Australian Worker's Union
Convenor and life member of Underground Supervisors’ Association
Member Norseman Hospital Board 1944
Attendance officer for Norseman Rotary Club 1955–1961
Convenor and secretary of Norseman Mines and Workers Club
Honorary secretary Norseman Sportsmen’s Council
Assistant secretary Norseman Police and Citizens’ Youth Club
Member committee Aged and Old Timers’ organisation, Norseman
Active cyclist when young, competed in road and track racing including the Beverley–Perth road race |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 245. |
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Verbatim transcript of an interview with Robert Henry Claude Stubbs, 1905-1998
Western Australian Parliamentary Debates, 28 May 1998, p. 3262–3263. |