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Jules Langdon
Australian politician
Jules Langdon (31 May 1871 – 2 November 1942) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Thebarton from 1938 to 1942 as an independent.[1][2]
Langdon was born at Kapunda, and was a building contractor by trade, first at Kapunda and Anlaby Station and then after 1914 in Adelaide. He was a Corporate Town of Thebarton councillor from 1926 for many years, and was mayor from 1932 to 1937.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
He was elected to the House of Assembly at the 1938 election, winning the new seat of Thebarton as an independent, campaigning on issues of employment and financial management.[9] He had previously unsuccessfully contested West Torrens at the 1933 election.[10] Langdon was one of 14 of 39 independent lower house MPs at the 1938 election, which as a grouping won 40 percent of the primary vote, more than either of the major parties.
He was re-elected at the 1941 election, but died at a private hospital in Adelaide on 2 November 1942, after having collapsed in Parliament House after delivering a speech on 29 October.[2] He was buried at Mitcham Cemetery.[3] One of his sons, Arthur Louis Langdon, was elected to his Thebarton council seat upon his death.[11] A memorial fountain to Langdon at the corner of Henley Beach Road and Taylors Road, Thebarton was dedicated in May 1944.[4]