Russell White (politician)

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Russell Thomas White CBE (19 June 1895 – 3 September 1981) was an Australian politician.

He was born at Windermere, Victoria to farmer William Nicholas White and Ellen Janet Banfield. He attended Grenville College in Ballarat and became a dairy farmer at Cardigan. On 20 December 1917 he married Isabel Wade, with whom he had three children. He was the founding president of the local branch of the Country Party, and served on Ballarat Shire Council from 1928–46, with two periods as president (1934–37, 1942–43).

Cardigan is a suburb on the north-western rural-urban fringe of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Cardigan had a population of 754.

The National Party of Australia – Victoria is a political party in Victoria, which forms the state branch of the federal Nationals. Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally. The Victorian Farmer's Union formed in 1914 was the precursor to the Victorian Country Party, later the Nationals.

Shire of Ballarat Local government area in Victoria, Australia

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In 1945 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Allandale. In 1951 he was appointed minister without portfolio and cabinet secretary in the Country Party government.^{[ citation needed ]}

The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne.

The electoral district of Allandale was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria, located north-west of Ballarat.

In 1952, he assumed the State Development portfolio. In December 1952 the government was defeated and White moved to the back bench. He changed seats to Ballarat North in 1955 and resigned from parliament in 1960 to become chairman of the Trotting Control Board. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.

Ballarat North was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It was created in the redistribution preceding the 1955 election, covering the northern suburbs and the rural areas north of Ballarat.

White retired in 1973 and died at Ballarat in 1981.^[1]

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References

↑ Parliament of Victoria (2001). "White, Russell Thomas". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 8 December 2015.

Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Patrick Denigan	Member for Allandale 1945–1955	Abolished
New seat	Member for Ballarat North 1955–1960	Succeeded by Tom Evans

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[vic-1] Parliament of Victoria (2001). "White, Russell Thomas". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 8 December 2015.