Condor Laucke
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The Honourable Sir Condor Laucke KCMG |
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| President of the Australian Senate | |
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In office 17 February 1976 – 30 June 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Justin O'Byrne |
| Succeeded by | Harold Young |
| Senator for South Australia | |
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In office 2 November 1967 – 30 June 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Clive Hannaford |
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| Born |
9 November 1914 South Australia |
| Died | 30 July 1993 (aged 78) |
| Political party | Liberal |
Sir Condor Louis Laucke, KCMG (9 November 1914 – 30 July 1993) was an Australian Liberal Party politician who served in both the South Australian House of Assembly and the Federal Senate, before becoming Lieutenant Governor of South Australia.
Condor Laucke was the youngest son of a German immigrant, Friedrich Laucke, who had migrated to South Australia from Bremen in 1895. In 1899 he established Laucke Mills at Greenock in South Australia's Barossa Valley. He was educated at Immanuel College and the School of Mines in Adelaide, and after graduating, joined the family business, becoming Director and General Manager of what was now a large milling and stock feed enterprise in 1947.
Laucke was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly in the 1956 election, representing the Electoral district of Barossa as part of Sir Thomas Playford's Liberal and Country League government. He was re-elected in 1959 and 1962, and from 1962 to 1965 served as Government Whip and was regarded by colleagues as a potential future leader of the Liberal and Country League. However Laucke lost his seat to Labor candidate Molly Byrne in the 1965 election which swept the Liberal and Country League from office after 32 years in government—an election campaign in which Barossa, where northern Adelaide urban sprawl was overflowing into an otherwise rural and conservative electorate, was particularly targeted by Labor.
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