David Leitch (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About David Leitch (politician)
- David Stanley Leitch (9 January 1923 – 18 January 1988) was an Australian politician.
- He was the Country Party member for Armidale in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 to 1978. Leitch was born in Leeton; his maternal grandfather was William Killen, a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1922 to 1931.
- Leitch was educated by correspondence from All Saints College in Bathurst.
- He studied medicine at the University of Sydney and was subsequently appointed an honorary surgeon to the Armidale and New England Hospital.
- In 1942 he enlisted in the AIF; he was posted to New Guinea, where he fought the Japanese at Shaggy Ridge.
- After his return he returned to his medical practice.In 1973, the Country Party member for Armidale, Davis Hughes, resigned to accept the post of Agent-General in London.
- Leitch was one of two Country Party candidates for the by-election, in which he narrowly defeated the Labor candidate.
- He held the seat at the 1973 and 1976 elections, but he was defeated in 1978 by Labor candidate Bill McCarthy.
- Leitch died in 1988 in Armidale.
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