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Occupation
  
Teacher

Succeeded by
  
Name
  
Helen Mayer

Nationality
  
Australian

Role
  
Olympic athlete


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Born
  
7 September 1932Kaniva, Victoria (
1932-09-07
)

Died
  
October 15, 1953, Munich, Germany

Education
  
University of Southern California

Olympic medals
  
Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics - Women's Foil, Individual

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Political party
  
Australian Labor Party

Dorothy Helen Mayer (7 September 1932 – 7 February 2008) was an Australian politician. Born in Kaniva, Victoria, she was educated at Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne and then Toorak Teachers' College, after which she became a teacher. In 1983, she was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Chisholm, defeating Liberal MP Graham Harris. It was actually her third try for the seat; she had previously stood in 1977 and 1980, and on the second occasion slashed the Liberal majority from a fairly safe eight percent to a very marginal two percent. She held the seat until her defeat in 1987. Mayer died in 2008.

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Helen Mayer Wikipedia


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