Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLC West Province 22 May 1928–1 November 1958
Office
- Chief Secretary, Minister for Local Government and Town Planning 23 February 1953–1 November 1958
- Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council 7 December 1955–1 November 1958
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1936–1952
- Member Standing Orders Committee 1947–1953
- Member Library Committee 1935–1943
- Member Select Committee inquiring into the City of Perth Superannuation Bill 1928
- Member Select Committee inquiring into Third Party risks under the Traffic Act 1940
- Member Select Committee inquiring into Standardisation of Railway Gauge Kalgoorlie to Fremantle 1945
Commissions
- Member Royal Commission inquiring into the Electoral Act 1935
- Member Royal Commission inquiring into the Companies Bill 1941
- Member Royal Commission inquiring into the Town Planning and Development Act Amendment Bill 1951–1952
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Represented Western Australia branch of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at General Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 1950
Historical Notes
- Father of the House May 1954–November 1958
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Personal Information |
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22 July 1894 |
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Bunbury, Western Australia |
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1 November 1958 |
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Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Returned in 1910 |
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Edmund Fraser, contractor, and Ellen Maud Fraser nee Walsh |
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Married 7 October 1914, St Anne’s Church, Fremantle to Mary Alice Williams (born 9 October 1892), daughter of Frederick James Williams and Mary Ann Williams nee Minshell
Children: three sons and one daughter |
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Catholic |
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Marist Brothers College, Bendigo
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Postal officer and telegraphist |
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Joined Postmaster-General Department Eaglehawk, Victoria, 1909
Stationed with Postmaster-General at Fremantle, letter carrier living in North Fremantle in 1915
Remained with Postmaster-General until 1928
Telegraphist for Royal Australian Air Force 1941–1945 |
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Went to Victoria with family as a young child
Returned to Western Australia 1910
Member Air Force Association
Used amplifier for speeches in Parliament in 1957 due to throat cancer |
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David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume one 1870-1930, Perth: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2001, p. 76. |
Bibliography |
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