David Gibson (Victorian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Gibson (Victorian politician)

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1873

Date of Death: 27-Apr-1940

Profession: politician, farmer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About David Gibson (Victorian politician)

  • David Havelock Gibson (7 February 1873 – 27 April 1940) was an Australian politician. Born in Havelock to farmer David Gibson and Grace Gerrand, both Scottish-born, he was a wheat farmer and grazier for thirty-four years.
  • His brother, William Gibson, was a prominent federal politician.
  • Around 1909 he married Margaret Barbara McKenzie, with whom he had one daughter.
  • From 1910 to 1922 he was a Leigh Shire councillor, serving as president from 1911 to 1913.
  • In 1917 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Grenville, a member of the newly political Victorian Farmers' Union, of which he became parliamentary secretary and whip.
  • Joining the Country Party at its foundation in 1920, he was defeated in 1921 and became director of the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation, a position he held until his death in 1940.

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