Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1937–1940
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council, is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia; the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to...

between 1937 and 1940. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1934 triennial election with terms expiring in 1940, while the other half were elected at the 1937 triennial election with terms expiring in 1943.
Name Party Province Term expires Term of office
William Angliss  United Australia
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...

 
Southern  1940 1912–1952
James Miller Balfour  Country
National Party of Australia
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Gippsland  1940 1936–1943
William Beckett
William Beckett (Australian politician)
William James Beckett CBE was an Australian politician.Born in Prahran to Irish-born taxi proprietor Samuel Beckett and Scottish-born Margaret Cameron, he attended both state and private schools before becoming a second-hand furniture dealer at Fitzroy with his brother Henry...

 
Labor
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 
Melbourne East  1940 1914–1931; 1934–1952
George Bolster  United Australia Wellington  1940 1934–1946
Gilbert Chandler
Gilbert Chandler
Sir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, CMG, KBE was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who served in the Bolte Ministry in Victoria....

 
United Australia Southern 1943 1935–1973
Percy Clarey
Percy Clarey
Percy James Clarey was an Australian trade union leader and politician.-Early life:Clarey was born at Bairnsdale, Victoria, the fifth child of general agent Francis William Clarey and Jessie Littlejohn Clarey, née Lawson. The family soon moved to Melbourne, and Percy attended South Yarra State...

 
Labor Doutta Galla
Doutta Galla Province
Doutta Galla Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Doutta Galla Province:...

 
1943 1937–1949
Hon Sir Frank Clarke  United Australia Monash
Monash Province
Monash Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Monash Province:-References:...

 
1943 1913–1955
Archibald Crofts  United Australia Melbourne South  1940 1935–1942
James Herbert Disney  Labor Melbourne West
Melbourne West Province
Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne West Province:...

 
1943 1916–1943
Clifden Eager  United Australia East Yarra
East Yarra Province
East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for East Yarra Province:...

 
1940 1930–1958
Hon William Edgar
William Edgar
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United Australia East Yarra 1943 1904–1913; 1917–1948
Charles Gartside  United Australia South Eastern  1943 1937–1955
Hon George Goudie  Country North Western 1943 1919–1949
Hon Sir John Harris  Country North Eastern  1940 1920–1946
Percival Inchbold  Country/McEwen North Eastern 1943 1935–1953
Hon John Percy Jones  United Australia South Western  1940 1910–1940
Paul Jones
Paul Jones (Australian politician)
Paul Jones was an Australian politician. Born in Gaffneys Creek, Victoria, he was educated at South Melbourne College before becoming a goldminer and teacher. He also studied at the University of Melbourne for an MA. In 1928, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in bizarre...

Labor Melbourne 1940 1938–1958
James Kennedy
James Kennedy (Australian politician)
The Honourable Sir James Arthur "Jim" Kennedy Kt was an Australian politician and sportsman. Kennedy served as a minister in the Dunstan and Hollway Victorian state governments in the 1940s. He played Australian rules football for Essendon and Carlton during the early 1900s...

 
United Australia Higinbotham 1943 1937–1954
Pat Kennelly Labor Melbourne West 1946 1938–1952
Esmond Kiernan  Independent Melbourne North
Melbourne North Province
Melbourne North Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne North Province:...

 
1940 1919–1940
Richard Kilpatrick  Country Northern  1940 1928–1946
Lt Col George Lansell  United Australia Bendigo  1940 1928–1952
John Lienhop  Country Bendigo 1943 1937–1951
Gordon McArthur  United Australia South Western 1943 1931–1965
William MacAulay  Country/McEwen Gippsland 1943 1937–1957
Daniel McNamara  Labor Melbourne 1943 1916; 1917–1947
Herbert Olney  United Australia Melbourne North 1943 1931–1943
Alfred Pittard  United Australia Ballarat  1943 1931–1949
Hon Henry Pye  Country North Western 1940 1932–1942
Leonard Rodda
Leonard Rodda
Leonard Roy Rodda was an Australian politician.Born in Tarranyurk to farmer Frederick Rodda and Elizabeth Mary Curnow, he attended Tarranyurk State School before working on the family farm...

 
Country Western 1943 1937–1946
Marcus Saltau  United Australia/Ind. Western  1940 1924–1940
Hon George Tuckett  Country Northern 1943 1925–1955
William Tyner  United Australia South Eastern 1940 1922–1940
Sir George Wales United Australia Melbourne 1940 1936–1938
Hon Robert Henry Williams Independent Melbourne West 1940 1922–1938

On 17 March 1938, Robert Henry Williams, Independent (formerly Labor) MLC for Melbourne West Province
Melbourne West Province
Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne West Province:...

, died. Labor candidate Pat Kennelly won the resulting by-election in May 1938.
In July 1938, Sir George Wales, UAP MLC for Melbourne Province, resigned over an alleged conflict of interest. Labor candidate Paul Jones
Paul Jones (Australian politician)
Paul Jones was an Australian politician. Born in Gaffneys Creek, Victoria, he was educated at South Melbourne College before becoming a goldminer and teacher. He also studied at the University of Melbourne for an MA. In 1928, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in bizarre...

 won the resulting by-election in September 1938.

Sources

  • Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria
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