Arthur Drakeford Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician, born 1904
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Place of Birth: Benalla, Victoria, Australia
About Arthur Drakeford Jr.
- Arthur Harold Finch Drakeford (8 February 1904 – 13 June 1959) was an Australian politician. He was born in Benalla to Arthur Drakeford and Ellen Warrington.
- He was a fitter and turner on the railways before an eye injury led to him becoming a clerk.
- Around 1934 he married Violet Amelia Heldon, with whom he had two sons.
- Like his father he was active in the Labor Party, serving as president of the party's Essendon and West Coburg branches and secretary of the Pascoe Vale branch.
- In 1945 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Essendon, but he was defeated in 1947.
- He returned to the Assembly in 1955 as the member for Pascoe Vale; with that seat's abolition in 1958 he again contested Essendon, but was defeated.
- Drakeford died the following year in Carlton.
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