Steele Hall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Steele Hall

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1928

Place of Birth: Balaklava, South Australia, Australia

Profession: politician, farmer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Raymond Steele Hall (born 30 November 1928) was the 36th Premier of South Australia 1968–70, a senator for South Australia 1974–77, and federal member for the Division of Boothby 1981–96. Hall was a state parliamentarian from 1959 to 1974, serving as Liberal and Country League (LCL) leader from 1966 to 1972 and premier from 1968 to 1970.
He introduced electoral reform, removing the Playmander which favoured the LCL, which contributed to his party's loss at the 1970 South Australian state election.
In 1972 he founded the Liberal Movement (LM), and resigned from the LCL when the LM split from the LCL in 1973.
He continued as a state parliamentarian until he resigned his seat in 1974 to be the LM's lead senate candidate at the 1974 Australian federal election. Hall won a senate seat for the LM at both the 1974 and 1975 elections.
After the LM disbanded in 1976 he rejoined the Liberal Party, as it was now called in South Australia, and he resigned from the senate in 1977 to contest the seat of Hawker at the 1977 Federal election, but was unsuccessful.
In 1981 he won the seat of Boothby at the 1981 by-election, and remained the Liberal member for Boothby until his retirement in 1996.