Harry Lawson (politician)

Sir Harry Lawson
27th Premier of Victoria
In office
21 March 1918 – 28 April 1924
ConstituencyCastlemaine and Maldon
Preceded byJohn Bowser
Succeeded byAlexander Peacock
Senator for Victoria
In office
1 July 1929 – 30 June 1935
Personal details
Born5 March 1875
Dunolly, Victoria, Australia
Died12 June 1952(1952-06-12) (aged 77)
East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Political partyNationalist (1917–31)
UAP (1931–35)
SpouseOlive Adele Horwood

Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson KCMG (5 March 1875 – 12 June 1952),[1] was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Victoria from 1918 to 1924. He later entered federal politics, serving as a Senator for Victoria from 1929 to 1935, and was briefly a minister in the Lyons government. He was a member of the Nationalist Party until 1931, when it was subsumed into the United Australia Party.

  1. ^ "Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2013.

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