Ian Macfarlan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIan Macfarlan
Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Ian Macfarlan
- Ian Macfarlan (born John Robert Macfarlan; 21 November 1881 – 19 March 1964) was the Deputy Leader of the Australian Liberal Party in the Australian state of Victoria during 1945.
- He was briefly commissioned as the 35th Premier of Victoria by the Governor and formed a government which brought about the end of the Dunstan Ministry.MacFarlan was the Member for Brighton from 1928 until 1945 and was Attorney-General and Solicitor-General on 3 occasions, from 26 November 1928 until 11 December 1929 in the government of William McPherson, from 25 July 1934 until 1 April 1935 in the government of Stanley Argyle and from 8 September 1943 until 20 November 1945 in the government of Albert Dunstan.MacFarlan was a member for the Nationalist Party, which later became the United Australia Party (UAP) in 1931.
- He became unsatisfied with UAP's strategic inflexibility and left the UAP in 1937 to serve as a liberal independent.
- In 1943, he was persuaded to rejoin the party as deputy to party leader Thomas Hollway.
- The UAP became the Liberal Party of Australia in 1945.
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