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Enid Lyons—Australian politician
Enid Muriel Lyons AD, GBE, (9 July 1897 - 2 September 1981), Australian politician, was the first woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives and the first woman appointed to the federal Cabinet. Prior to these achievements in her own right, she was best known as the wife of the Premier of Tasmania and later Prime Minister of Australia, Joseph Lyons. Lyons was born Enid Muriel Burnell in Smithton, Tasmania, and educated at the Teacher's Training ...
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Enid Greene—politician
Enid Greene Waldholtz) (born June 5, 1958), politician from the state of Utah who served one term in the United States House of Representatives Enid Kent, played Nurse Bigelow, a recurring character in the television series M*A*S*H Enid Lyons (1897-1981), Australian politician, and wife of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons Enid Mumford (1924-2006), British professor largely known for her work on human factors and socio-technical systems, Enid Starkie (1897-1970), Irish literary critic Enid Yandell (1870-1934), American sculptor
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Enid Dame—American Poet
Enid Dame earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers English in 1983, and taught at Rutgers and at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. For twenty-five years, she and her husband Donald Lev co-edited Home Planet News, a literary review. She was beloved in the New York/New Jersey poetry community, known for being encouraging to others and generous with her time as well as for her poetry. Ms. Dame published several collections, including Lilith and Her Demons and Anything You Don’t See. ... “As a poet, Enid Dame had a wonderful wit,” Ms. Beaumont says. “Her work often took old stories and gave new voice to the characters, a great model of feminist retelling and also of dramatic monologue. I hope the prize will inspire students to look up and enjoy her work.”
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John Hogg—Australian Labor Party Politician
John Hogg This article is about the Australian politician John Joseph Hogg. For the English Catholic martyr, see John Hogg (martyr). For the English biologist, see John Hogg (biologist). John Joseph Hogg (born 19 March 1949), is a politician, and has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. Hogg was born in Brisbane, and educated at the University of Queensland, where he graduated in science.
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Joan Kirner—Australian Labor Party Politician
Joan Elizabeth Kirner AM (born 20 June 1938), Australian politician, was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, the first female to hold the position, which she held for two years prior to a landslide election defeat.
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Kim Edward Beazley—Australian Labor Party Politician
Kim Edward Beazley :For Kim Beazley's son Kim Christian Beazley, see Kim Beazley . Beazley was born in Perth, Western Australia , Western Australia , and was educated at the University of Western Australia and the Australian National University . He worked as a school teacher and university tutor before entering politics. Beazley succeeded John Curtin as Member for Division of Fremantle in 1945 . He was the youngest member of the Australian House of Representatives when he was elected, and was known as "the student prince". He held the seat until he retired in 1977 , by which time he was List of longest-serving members of the Australian House of Representatives . ... He retired from politics in 1977 . Beazley is the last surviving member of the Parliament of Australia from the period of the Ben Chifley Labor Government (1945-49).
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John Button—Australian Labor Party Politician
John Norman Button (born 30 June 1933), Australian politician, was a senior minister in the Hawke Labor government.
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William McKell—Australian Labor Party Politician
William John McKell: Boilermaker, Premier, Governor-General, (NSW University Press, Sydney, 2000) tracks the life of Australia’s first practising politician Governor-General from his childhood in the slums of Redfern to his old age.
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Michael Forshaw—Australian Labor Party Politician
Michael George Forshaw (born 11 January 1952), Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of New South Wales since May 1994, representing the Australian Labor Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Forshaw
Maurice Blackburn—Australian Labor Party Politician
Blackburn (1880–1944) Maurice McCrae Blackburn was born in Inglewood, Victoria, and educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. After his father's death in 1887, the family was unable to pay for a university education. Blackburn began work as an office-boy. Supporting himself by working as a teacher and librarian, Blackburn studied law and arts at the University of Melbourne (BA 1906; LLB 1909). He became a barrister, and in 1921 founded the legal firm of Maurice Blackburn & Co. Unusually for a firm of solicitors at the time, it specialised in trade union law. Blackburn was increasingly involved in left-wing politics, in the Australian Labor Party and the Victorian Socialist Party. ... Maurice Blackburn
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