Ivan_Swinburne

Ivan Swinburne

Ivan Swinburne

Australian politician


Ivan Archie Swinburne CMG (6 March 1908 12 August 1994) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Wangaratta to dairy farmers George Arthur and Hilda Maud Swinburne. He attended local public schools and became a dairy farmer in 1930. From 1940 to 1947 he was a member of Bright Shire Council, serving as president from 1943 to 1944. On 7 January 1950 he married Isabella Mary Moore; in 1951 they had a daughter, Janice. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1946 as a Country Party member for North Eastern. He was deputy leader of the Country Party in the upper house from 1954 to 1969 and leader from 1969 to 1976; he also served as Minister of Housing and Materials from 1950 to 1952. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1973, and retired from politics in 1976. Swinburne died in 1994.[1]


References

  1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Swinburne, Ivan Archie". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
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