Ian Allan (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
About Ian Allan (politician)
- Archibald Ian Allan (3 January 1916 – 13 February 2000) was an Australian politician.
- Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, he attended Sydney Grammar School before becoming an overseer at CSR.
- After serving in World War II from 1939 to 1946, he became an ABC announcer in Tamworth.
- In the by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Gwydir that followed the death of Thomas Treloar in 1953, Allan was selected as the Country Party candidate and won.
- He held the seat until his resignation in 1969, after which he became Secretary-General of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- Allan died in 2000.
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