Gordon Jackett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Laura, South Australia, Australia
About Gordon Jackett
- Harry Gordon Jackett (6 July 1887 – 3 May 1951) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1935 and 1938 and from 1941 until his death.
- He was variously a United Australia Party (UAP), Independent UAP, Democratic Party and Liberal Party member of parliament . Jackett was born in Laura, South Australia and educated in Adelaide.
- His father owned a flour milling business which Jackett inherited and enlarged.
- He commenced a branch of the business in Strathfield, New South Wales in 1918.
- Jackett was an alderman on Burwood Municipal Council between 1922 and 1935 and was elected mayor in 1935.
- Jackett was elected to the New South Wales Parliament as the United Australia Party member for Burwood at the 1935 state election, succeeding the retiring UAP member Thomas Henley.
- At the 1938 election, the UAP endorsed both Jackett and Harrie Mitchell.
- Mitchell won the seat but Jackett regained it as an Independent UAP candidate in 1941.
- He successfully contested the seat as a Democratic Party candidate in 1944 and was a foundation member of the Liberal Party in 1946.
- He died in office in 1951.
- He did not hold parliamentary, party or ministerial office.
- His son, John Jackett, was also a member of the Legislative Assembly.
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