Preceded by District created Spouse(s) Joan Davies | Children Three daughters | |
Born 10 September 1918Ballarat, Victoria, Australia ( 1918-09-10 ) Died 1 April 2013(2013-04-01) (aged 94) Political party Liberal PartyLiberal and Country PartyVictorian Liberal Party | ||
John Don MBE (10 September 1918 – 1 April 2013) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Ballarat to solicitor Joseph Edwin Don and Mary Minnie Cross. He attended various state schools before studying at Melbourne University. During World War II he served in the Middle East and later the Philippines, attaining the rank of major and being awarded the MBE. On 9 March 1943 he married Joan Yvonne Davies, with whom he had three daughters. In 1945 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Elsternwick, while he was still studying law (he would be admitted as a solicitor in 1954). He was briefly a minister without portfolio in June 1950. A supporter of Thomas Hollway, he was one of the rebels who voted against the McDonald Country Party government in 1952 and served as Minister of Tranport and Labour in the seventy-hour ministry that resulted. He was defeated as a Victorian Liberal Party candidate in 1955. A solicitor after leaving parliament, he later rejoined the Liberal Party. Don died in 2013.