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Harry Drew

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Died
  
2 December 1970

Harold Vincent "Harry" Drew (12 October 1902 – 2 December 1970) was an Australian politician.

He was born in South Melbourne to dairyman Edward Harvey Drew and Charlotte Helen Farnell. He attended University High School and became an accountant, working for General Motors-Holden from 1927 to 1931. In 1932 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the United Australia Party member for Albert Park. He lost endorsement in 1937 and was defeated as an independent candidate. During World War II he served with the Royal Australian Air Force as a squadron leader. On 18 October 1940 he married Shirley Doreen Brand, with whom he had two children. He returned to the Assembly in 1947 as the Liberal member for Mentone, but he was defeated after a single term in 1950. He returned to work part-time as an accountant, but increasingly suffered from ill health. Drew died in Melbourne in 1970.

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