Stanley Alfred James "Stan" Knowles (born 9 June 1931) was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

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Knowles was educated at Burwood Primary School and Ashfield Boys High School and became a small business operator. He married Marie in June 1955 and they had two sons. He was elected as an alderman of Liverpool City Council

City of Liverpool

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 from 1976 until 1982 and was Deputy Mayor from 1980 to 1982.

Knowles was elected as the Australian Labor Party

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...

 member for Ingleburn

Electoral district of Ingleburn

Ingleburn was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1981, and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Ingleburn. It was abolished in 1988 and largely replaced by Macquarie Fields....

 in 1981 and re-elected until Ingleburn's abolition in 1988, when he was elected as the member for Macquarie Fields

Electoral district of Macquarie Fields

Macquarie Fields is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, located in the outer south-western suburbs of Sydney. It is currently represented by Dr Andrew McDonald of the Australian Labor Party....

. He resigned in 1990 and was succeeded by his son, Craig Knowles

Craig Knowles

Craig John Knowles is a former Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2005....

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