George Gray (Australian politician)
| George Gray | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Capricornia |
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In office 9 December 1961 – 2 August 1967 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Pearce |
| Succeeded by | Doug Everingham |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
2 October 1903 Hay, New South Wales |
| Died | 2 August 1967 (aged 63) Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party |
Douglas Credit (1930s) Labor (from ?) |
| Spouse(s) | Elsa Noelen Braham Stratton |
| Occupation | Farmer |
George Henry Gray (2 October 1903? – 2 August 1967) was an Australian politician.
Gray claimed to have been born at Hay, New South Wales on 2 October 1903 to bank manager George Henry Gray and his wife Priscilla Maud Kerr. He grew up near Orange and was educated at Burwood Public School in Sydney, then becoming a grocer's assistant at Thornleigh. He later became a customs officer at Shanghai in China in the middle 1920s.
Gray returned to Australia around 1926 and moved to Queensland, becoming a farmer and organiser for the Douglas Credit Party. He contested the 1935 state election for the party, and polled 46.5 percent in the seat of Albert, losing to Tom Plunkett of the CPNP. On 4 August 1939 he was the leader of a raid comprising thirty-seven members of the League for Social Justice on Parliament House in the Queensland capital of Brisbane. The raiders demanded lower unemployment and better conditions for primary producers from the government. Gray and the others were arrested for unlawful assembly but were acquitted at the subsequent trial. Later, he claimed to have been spying on the league for intelligence authorities. On 20 April 1944 he married Elsa Noelen Braham Stratton, aged 19, at Woollahra in Sydney.
Gray was mobilised on 29 May 1940 and served in Queensland and Papua New Guinea. In May 1942 he was commissioned in the Australian Imperial Force, and on 12 December 1944 he transferred to the Reserve of Officers as a captain. Returning to Brisbane, he became an accountant for Queensland Cement & Lime Co. and owned a business (run by his wife Elsa) at Bowen Hills.
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