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Country Party |
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22 May 1914 |
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East |
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Electorates
- MLC East Province 22 May 1914–2 March 1950 (never opposed after 1914)
- Contested York 3 October 1911
Office
- Minister without portfolio, 28 June 1917–17 April 1919
- Minister for Agriculture, 17 April 1919–17 May 1919
- Minister without portfolio, 17 May 1919–13 April 1921
- Minister for Country Water Supplies, Trading Concerns, and Chief Secretary (from 14 October 1931), 24 April 1930–24 April 1933
Historical Notes
- Father of the House, 25 November 1946–2 March 1950
- Baxter and his son NE Baxter, with BC and GB Wood and CWM and RF Court are the only father and sons to each have been a Minister of the Crown in WA
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Personal Information |
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20 May 1874 |
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Croxton East, Mt Rowse, Victoria, Australia |
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2 March 1950 |
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Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Arrived in WA 1896 |
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Son of Patrick Duncan, accountant, and Mary (Jane) Barnes |
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Married 31 December 1896, Baptist Church, Kew, Victoria to Jessica Minnie Millsom (born circa 1875), daughter of Robert and Harriet Swaine
Children: four sons, including Norman Eric Baxter, MP and farmer, and one daughter |
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Church of England |
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Educated state and private schools
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Farmer |
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Butcher in Albany
Worked as linesman on overland telegraph line between Esperance and Eucla
Cycle agent in Albany, 1899–1900
1901–1904 at Boulder
Partner in firm of Basnett, Garland Pty Ltd, Perth
Senior Director, British Traders’ Insurance Co, Perth |
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Settled on property at Whitehaven, near York
Moved to Perth 1914, sold York property 1924, purchased property at Waeel
Also interested in a cattle station in the north-west of Western Australia |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010, p. 33
West Australian, 3 March 1950. |
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