Charles_Grant_(Australian_politician)

Charles Grant (Australian politician)

Charles Grant (Australian politician)

Australian politician

For the member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 1892-1901, see Charles Henry Grant.

Charles William Grant (25 April 1878 – 14 December 1943) was an Australian politician.

Quick Facts Senator for Tasmania, Preceded by ...

Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he was educated at Hutchins School before becoming a merchant and later a magistrate. In 1922 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Denison.[1] He left the Assembly in 1925, when he was appointed to the Australian Senate as a Nationalist Senator for Tasmania, filling the casual vacancy caused by the death of Senator George Foster.

Defeated in 1925, he returned to the House of Assembly for Denison in 1928, serving until 1932 as an Honorary Minister.[1] He was appointed again as a Tasmanian Senator, this time for the United Australia Party, in 1932 after the death of James Ogden. He remained in the Senate until his retirement in 1940.[2]

Grant died in 1943, in the same house he was born in on Davey Street, Hobart.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Charles William Grant". Members of the Parliament of Tasmania. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  2. [2]
    Carr, Adam (2008). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
  3. [3]
    "GRANT, Charles William (1878–1943) Senator for Tasmania, 1925, 1932–41 (Nationalist Party; United Australia Party)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Retrieved 23 October 2017.


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