Doris Blackburn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian political activist, legislator
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Doris Blackburn
- Doris Amelia Blackburn (née Hordern; 18 September 1889 – 12 December 1970) was an Australian social reformer and politician.
- She served in the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1949, the second woman after Enid Lyons to do so.
- Blackburn was a prominent socialist and originally a member of the Labor Party.
- She was married to Maurice Blackburn, a Labor MP, but he was expelled from the party in 1937 and she resigned from the party in solidarity.
- Her husband died in 1944, and she was elected to his former seat at the 1946 federal election – the first woman elected to parliament as an independent.
- However, Blackburn served only a single term before being defeated.
- She later served as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
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