Nationality Australian Political party Liberal Party | Name Alexander Armstrong | |
Full Name Alexander Ewan Armstrong Born 15 June 1916
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ( 1916-06-15 ) Died 27 April 1985(1985-04-27) (aged 68)
Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Spouse(s) Marjorie Alma Goodhew
Margaret Rose Cleary Parents George Armstrong
Florence Edith Ewan | ||
Other political
affiliations Country Party | ||
Alexander Ewan Armstrong (15 June 1916 – 27 April 1985) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Sydney to doctor George Armstrong and Florence Edith Ewan. He attended Scots College and became a grazier, working first on the family's Albury property and then at Winderadeen and Collector. On 10 February 1945 he married Marjorie Alma Goodhew; they had two daughters, but were later divorced, and he remarried Margaret Rose Cleary in July 1963. A member of the Liberal Party, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1952. In 1956 he defected to the Country Party. In 1969, following the finding of the Court of Appeal in Barton v Armstrong that Armstrong had threatened to have a business associate killed, he was expelled from Parliament. He died at Alice Springs in 1985.