Longest-serving members of the Parliament of Victoria

Longest serving parliamentarians

A list of the 15 longest-serving members of both Victoria's Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council.

List of longest-serving members of the Parliament of Victoria

No.	Portrait	Name	Party		House	Electorate	Term began	Term ended	Time in office	Notes
1		John Lemmon (1875–1955)		Labor	Legislative Assembly	Williamstown	1 June 1904	22 April 1955	50 years, 325 days	[1] [ citation needed ]
2		Alexander Peacock (1861–1933)		Independent	Legislative Assembly	Clunes and Allandale	9 April 1889	1 June 1904	44 years, 181 days	[2] [3]
				United Australia		Allandale	1 June 1904	7 October 1933
3		Nicholas Fitzgerald (1829–1908)		Independent	Legislative Council	North Western Province	29 November 1864	November 1882	43 years, 262 days	[4] [5]
						North Central Province	November 1882	17 August 1908
4		Frank Clarke (1879–1955)		Nationalist	Legislative Council	Northern Province	6 June 1913	4 June 1925	41 years, 252 days	[6] [7] [8]
				United Australia		Melbourne South Province	4 June 1925	12 June 1937
				Liberal and Country		Monash Province	12 June 1937	13 February 1955
5		James Balfour (1830–1913)		Independent	Legislative Assembly	East Bourke	12 February 1866	19 August 1868	41 years, 243 days	[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
					Legislative Council	Southern Province	30 June 1874	30 November 1882
						South Eastern Province	30 November 1882	1 June 1904
						East Yarra Province	1 June 1904	24 August 1913
6		Albert Lind (1878–1964)		United Country Party	Legislative Assembly	Gippsland East	21 October 1920	15 July 1961	40 years, 267 days	[15] [16] [17] [18]
7		Bill Slater (1890–1960)		Labor	Legislative Assembly	Dundas	15 November 1917	14 May 1932	40 years, 244 days	[19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
							6 September 1932	8 November 1947
					Legislative Council	Doutta Galla Province	18 June 1949	19 June 1960
8		Ewen Hugh Cameron (1831–1915)		Commonwealth Liberal	Legislative Assembly	Evelyn	19 May 1874	26 November 1914	40 years, 191 days	[24] [25] [26]
9		Herbert Hyland (1884–1970)		Country	Legislative Assembly	Gippsland South	30 November 1929	18 March 1970	40 years, 108 days	[27] [28]
10		William Angliss (1865–1957)		Liberal and Country	Legislative Council	Southern Province	21 June 1912	21 June 1952	40 years, 0 days	[29] [30] [31]
11		Tom Tunnecliffe (1869–1948)		Labor	Legislative Assembly	West Melbourne	15 December 1903	1 June 1904	39 years, 358 days	[32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]
						Eaglehawk	15 March 1907	21 October 1920
						Collingwood	30 August 1921	30 July 1947
12		William Edgar (1858–1948)		United Australia	Legislative Council	Melbourne West Province	1 June 1904	6 June 1913	39 years, 342 days	[39] [14] [40] [41]
						East Yarra Province	5 July 1917	6 June 1948
13	Portrait of George Prendergast	George Prendergast (1854–1937)		Labor	Legislative Assembly	North Melbourne	4 October 1894	28 September 1897	39 years, 295 days	[42] [43] [44] [45]
							1 November 1900	9 April 1927
						Footscray	9 April 1927	28 August 1937
14		John Cain Sr (1882–1957)		Labor	Legislative Assembly	Jika Jika	15 November 1917	4 March 1927	39 years, 226 days	[46] [ citation needed ]
						Northcote	9 April 1927	4 August 1957
15	Portrait of James Jewell	James Jewell (1869–1949)		Labor	Legislative Assembly	Brunswick	14 March 1910	14 May 1949	39 years, 61 days	[47] [48]

Father of the Legislative Assembly

Name	Term length	Time as Father	Notes
Francis Murphy	November 1856 - December 1865 February 1866 - January 1871
John Smith	November 1856 - August 1859 October 1859 - July 1861 August 1861 - January 1879
James Macpherson Grant	November 1856 - August 1859 October 1859 - July 1870 April 1871 - April 1885
Peter Lalor	November 1856 - August 1859 October 1859 - January 1871 May 1874 - April 1877 May 1877 - February 1889
William McLellan	October 1859 – April 1877 February 1883 – September 1897
Jonas Levien	32 years, 236 days 25 April 1871 – 4 December 1877 11 May 1880 – 24 May 1906
Duncan Gillies	February 1861 - May 1868 March 1870 - April 1877 May 1877 - October 1877 November 1877 - March 1889 9 April 1889 - January 1894 25 October 1897 – 12 September 1903		[49] [50] [ citation needed ]
Jonas Levien	32 years, 236 days 25 April 1871 – 4 December 1877 11 May 1880 – 24 May 1906	2 years, 254 days	[51] [52] [53]
Ewen Hugh Cameron	40 years, 191 days 19 May 1874 – 26 November 1914	8 years, 186 days	[24] [25] [26]
John Murray	31 years, 329 days 10 June 1884 – 4 May 1916	1 year, 160 days	[54]
Alfred Richard Outtrim	39 years, 97 days 1 December 1885 – 1 April 1892 16 March 1886 – 1 October 1902 1 June 1904 – 21 October 1920	4 years, 170 days	[55] [56]
Alexander Peacock	44 years, 181 days 9 April 1889 – 7 October 1933	12 years, 351 days	[2] [3]
Richard Toutcher	37 years, 128 days 25 October 1897 – 2 March 1935	1 year, 146 days	[57]
George Prendergast	39 years, 289 days 20 September 1894 – 14 October 1897 1 November 1900 – 4 March 1927 9 April 1927 – 28 August 1937	2 years, 179 days
John Lemmon	50 years, 325 days 1 June 1904 – 22 April 1955	17 years, 237 days
John Cain Sr	39 years, 226 days 15 November 1917 – 4 March 1927 9 April 1927 – 4 August 1957	2 years, 104 days
Albert Lind	40 years, 223 days 21 October 1920 – 1 June 1961	3 years, 301 days
Herbert Hyland	40 years, 137 days 1 November 1929 – 18 March 1970	8 years, 290 days
Clive Stoneham	27 years, 84 days 28 November 1942 – 1 October 1945 10 November 1945 – 1 April 1970	14 days
George Moss	27 years, 190 days 10 November 1945 – 19 May 1973	3 years, 48 days
Tom Mitchell	28 years, 287 days 7 June 1947 – 20 March 1976	2 years, 306 days
Sam Loxton	23 years, 342 days 28 May 1955 – 5 May 1979	3 years, 46 days
Jim Balfour	14 years, 339 days 29 April 1967 – 3 April 1982	2 years, 333 days
Frank Wilkes	31 years, 10 days 21 September 1957 – 1 October 1988	6 years, 181 days
Bruce Evans	31 years, 79 days 15 July 1961 – 2 October 1992	4 years, 1 day
Ian Smith	30 years, 141 days 29 April 1967 – 18 September 1999	6 years, 351 days
Rob Maclellan	32 years, 184 days 30 May 1970 – 30 November 2002	3 years, 73 days
Ken Jasper	34 years, 252 days 20 March 1976 – 27 November 2010	7 years, 362 days
Robert Clark	30 years, 54 days 1 October 1988 – 24 November 2018	7 years, 362 days
Kim Wells	33 years, 13 days 3 October 1992 – present	6 years, 326 days

See also

• List of longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia

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