Burford Sampson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
About Burford Sampson
- Burford Sampson DSO (30 March 1882 – 5 June 1959) was an Australian politician and soldier.
- Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at Launceston Grammar School before serving in the military 1899–1901, during the Second Boer War.
- He remained in Africa, serving with the Rhodesian Mountain Police and farming in South Africa.
- He returned to Tasmania in 1907 as a farmer.
- He served in World War I (1914–1918) and was at the landing at Gallipoli, before serving on the Western Front and briefly commanding the 15th Battalion during their final battle around Jeancourt in September 1918.
- After the war, he became a manager in Launceston.
- In 1925, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Nationalist Senator for Tasmania.
- Sampson served as Chairman of Committees from 1935 to 1938.
- He was defeated at the 1937 federal election (his term finishing in June 1938), but was re-elected in 1940.
- He was defeated again in 1946 as a Liberal.
- Sampson died in 1959.
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