Paul Jones (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician, born 1878
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Place of Birth: Gaffneys Creek, Victoria, Australia
About Paul Jones (Australian politician)
- Paul Jones (15 June 1878 – 27 December 1972) was an Australian politician.
- Born in Gaffneys Creek, Victoria, he was educated at South Melbourne College before becoming a goldminer and teacher.
- He also studied at the University of Melbourne for a Master of Arts degree. In 1928, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in unusual circumstances.
- Jones stood for the Labor Party in Indi, and was initially a heavy underdog in this strongly conservative seat.
- However Country Party incumbent Robert Cook mistakenly failed to lodge his renomination papers, leaving Jones to take the seat unopposed.
- This is one of the few known instances in the history of the Australian Parliament that a candidate has lost his or her seat in this way. Jones narrowly held onto the seat in 1929, seeing off a spirited challenge from Cook.
- He was defeated in the United Australia Party landslide of 1931, suffering a 14-point swing.
- Labor has not come close to winning the seat since then, only tallying 45 percent of the two-party vote once. Jones was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1938 for Doutta Galla Province.
- He remained in the Council until 1958, but left the Labor Party in 1955, joining the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), which later became the Democratic Labor Party.Paul Jones died in 1972.
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