Arthur Harold Finch Drakeford
Arthur Harold Finch Drakeford (born February 8, 1904 in Benalla , Victoria , Australia ; died June 13, 1959 ) was an Australian politician. He was the son of Arthur Samuel Drakeford from his first marriage to Ellen Tyrie, née Warrington, in contrast to this he was also called "Arthur Drakeford jr. " called.
At the time of his birth his father had a job with the railway in Benalla, after his further qualification as a train driver , the family moved to Melbourne in 1908 . After his training at the technical school in the borough of Brunswick , the young Drakeford first worked as a lathe operator and machinist in a railway workshop in Newport , before he had to move to an office post due to an eye injury. Like his father, a member of the Australian Labor Party , Drakeford successfully applied for a seat in the lower house of Victoria in the constituency of Essendon in the fall of 1945 , but lost it again in the election two years later. In the spring of 1955, Drakeford again succeeded in entering parliament, this time in the constituency of Pascoe Vale . After this was dissolved for election in the spring of 1958, he ran again in his old constituency of Essendon. He was defeated and thus resigned from parliament.
Drakeford married Violet Amelia Heldon around 1934, with whom he had two sons.
Web links
- Arthur Harold Finch Drakeford on the Victoria Parliament website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b : Arthur Drakeford in the Australian Dictionary of Biography , accessed on December 11, 2018 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drakeford, Arthur Harold Finch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drakeford, Arthur (Jr.) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Benalla, Melbourne , Victoria (Australia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1959 |