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Francis Michael Forde (18 July 1890 – 28 January 1983) was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 6 to 13 July 1945. He held office in caretaker capacity after the death of John Curtin, and is the shortest-serving prime minister in Australia’s history.

Forde was born in Mitchell, Queensland, and was a schoolteacher in Rockhampton before entering politics. Having joined the Labor Party at a young age, Forde was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1917, aged 26.

He transferred to the House of Representatives at the 1922 federal election, winning the Division of Capricornia. Forde entered cabinet in 1931, serving as Minister for Trade and Customs for what would be the final year of the Scullin Government.

After Labor’s landslide defeat at the 1931 election, Forde was elected deputy leader in place of Ted Theodore. He returned to cabinet in 1941

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Portrait of Hon David Alexander Gledson, Minister for State Enterprises

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David Alexander Gledson (1877 – 14 May 1949) was an accountant and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born in Saintfield, County Down, Ireland and arrived in Queensland with his family in 1885. He was educated at Bundamba State School and the Ipswich Technical College, and later in life he attended night classes to qualify as an accountant.

He worked at the Bundamba coal mines and was inspired by the union ideals of Gilbert Casey. After a strike in 1905 he helped to found the Queensland Colliery Employees’ Union. In 1908 he was employed full-time by the union as its secretary. He won the seat of Ipswich in the 1915 Queensland state election and held it until Labor’s defeat in 1929, winning the seat back when Labor was returned to power in 1932. This time he remained the member up until his death in

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Portrait of Hon William McCormack, Premier of Queensland

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William McCormack (27 April 1879 – 21 November 1947) was Premier of Queensland from 1925 to 1929. He was born in St Lawrence, Queensland.

McCormack entered politics as member for Cairns in the Queensland Legislative Assembly at the election of 1912, a seat he held until his retirement from politics in 1930.

He was a friend of Ted Theodore, an earlier premier, and was involved with him in the Mungana Affair.

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Wikipedia

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Digital Image ID 3757

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Cecil George Jesson MLA

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Cecil George “Nugget” Jesson (7 July 1899 – 25 December 1961) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He held the seat of Kennedy for the ALP from 1935 until 1950. He then held the new seat of Hinchinbrook from 1950 to 1960.

Jesson was the government whip from 1950 until 1957 and the opposition whip from 1957 to 1960. Outside of government he held many jobs, including business manager, road navvy, rouseabout, painter, mail contractor, vegetable and produce agent, auctioneer, commission agent and engineer. He also served in the Royal Australian Nacy during World War I.

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Queensland Parliament, Wikipedia

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Alfred Dohring MLA

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Alfred Dohring (11 July 1896 – 13 July 1982) was an Australian politician and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born in Alpha, Queensland, and was the member for Roma from 1953 to 1957, representing the first Australian Labor Party and then the breakaway Queensland Labor Part in 1957.

On Thursday 29 July 1954 Dohring fell 100 feet from the centre span of the Story Bridge to the Brisbane River below. An officer on the freighter Daylesford heard the splash and dispatched two seamen in a ship’s boat who dragged the unconscious Dohring from the water. He suffered extensive injuries and was placed in an iron lung at the Brisbane General Hospital.

When he regained consciousness, he told police he must have blacked-out as he had no memory of the fall. Doctors said he was lucky to have survived such a fall. By late

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Frank Nicklin (Premier) right and Shire councillor and Shire Office staff, Jericho

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Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin (6 August 1895 – 29 January 1978) was an Australian politician. He was the Premier of Queensland from 1957 to 1968, the first non-Labor Party premier since 1932.

After serving in World War I, Nicklin bought a small pineapple farm at Palmwoods through a soldier-settler scheme. Nicklin saved wisely and put his farming experience to good use, and his farm succeeded where many others failed. He led many fruit-growers’ organisations, and then became involved in Country party politics.

By comparison with the political turbulence in Queensland between the 1950s and the 1970s, the 1960s were singularly subdued. Primarily the Nicklin Government concentrated on employment relations and on developing the state’s infrastructure. In general, Nicklin saw little reason to lose electoral capital by passing tough industrial relations laws during times of prosperity.

In many ways, Nicklin broke the mould of Queensland Premiers. Neither

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