Ernie Bond (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Heywood, Victoria, Australia
About Ernie Bond (politician)
- Ernest Edward "Ernie" Bond (29 June 1897 – 25 July 1984) was an Australian politician. He was born in Heywood to rural worker Robert Bond and Sarah Jane Mullens.
- He attended Geelong High School and became a schoolteacher at Lavers Hill and Heywood, and then head teacher at Greenwald and Condah.
- On 20 July 1923 he married Ethel Thomas, with whom he had three children.
- A member of the Labor Party's Heywood branch from the age of seventeen, he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Glenelg in 1924; he transferred to Port Fairy and Glenelg in 1927.
- In 1932 he was expelled from the Labor Party over his support for the Premiers' Plan; he was re-elected as an independent and was readmitted to the Labor Party in 1937.
- He served until his retirement in 1943.
- Subsequently, he was a dairy farmer until 1964, when he retired to Portland.
- Bond died in Heywood in 1984.
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