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About Ernest Buttenshaw
- Ernest Albert Buttenshaw (23 May 1876 – 26 June 1950) was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1917 until 1932.
- He was a member of the Nationalist Party of Australia until 1920, when he helped to establish the Progressive Party.
- After 1925 he was a member of its successor, the Country Party.
- He was the party leader between 1925 and 1932 and held a number of government ministries. Buttenshaw was born in Young, New South Wales.
- His father, was a blacksmith and he was educated to elementary level at Young Superior School.
- He initially worked as a delivery boy for the Post Office and later became a farmer.
- He was active in farmer's political groups and was the Shire President of Bland Shire in 1914-1918. Buttenshaw was elected as the Nationalist member for Lachlan at the 1917 NSW state election.
- With the introduction of proportional representation in multi-member seats he became the member for Murrumbidgee between 1920 and 1927.
- When single member electorates were restored in 1927, he again became the member for Lachlan until his retirement in 1938.
- With Michael Bruxner he was one of the 'true blue' progressives who refused to support a coalition government with George Fuller's Nationalists.
- Bruxner's faction became the Country Party with Bruxner as the leader and Buttenshaw the deputy leader.
- Bruxner resigned the leadership for family reasons in late 1925 and was succeeded by Buttenshaw.
- After the 1927 election of the Nationalist/Country Party coalition government led by Thomas Bavin, Buttenshaw became the Minister for RailCorp (1927–1929) and Minister for Public Works (1927–1930).
- He was the Acting Premier while Bavin was on a loan raising trip to the United Kingdom between April and August 1929.
- In 1932, Buttenshaw stood down in favour of Bruxner and became deputy leader again.
- He held the position of Minister for Lands in the government of Bertram Stevens.
- Buttenshaw retired at the 1938 election and died in Sydney in 1950.
- He was a keen tennis player and coached Harry Hopman.
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