Wilfrid Simmonds, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Cairns, Queensland, Australia
About Wilfrid Simmonds
- Wilfrid Mylchreest Simmonds, (19 December 1889 – 2 January 1967) was an Australian politician.
- Born in Cairns, Queensland, he was educated at Mulgrave before becoming a sugar cane grower.
- After serving in the military 1917–1919, he sat on Mulgrave Shire Council.
- At the 1949 federal election, he was elected to the Senate as a Country Party candidate.
- His term began on 22 February 1950 and ended with a double dissolution on 19 March 1951; he was not re-endorsed at the 1951 election.
- Simmonds was appointed MBE in 1961 and died in Babinda in 1967.
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