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Mr David Benjamin HUNTER (1905 - 1981)

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Date of Birth: 05/09/1905
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 31/08/1981
Place of Death: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Member for Ashfield 17 Nov 1973 02 Apr 1976 2 years 4 months 17 days
Member for Ashfield 13 Feb 1971 19 Oct 1973 2 years 8 months 7 days
Member for Ashfield 24 Feb 1968 13 Jan 1971 2 years 10 months 21 days
Member for Ashfield-Croydon 01 May 1965 23 Jan 1968 2 years 8 months 24 days
Member for Ashfield-Croydon 03 Mar 1962 31 Mar 1965 3 years 29 days
Member for Ashfield-Croydon 21 Mar 1959 05 Feb 1962 2 years 10 months 16 days
Member for Croydon 03 Mar 1956 16 Feb 1959 2 years 11 months 14 days
Member for Croydon 14 Feb 1953 06 Feb 1956 2 years 11 months 24 days
Member for Croydon 25 May 1950 14 Jan 1953 2 years 7 months 21 days
Member for Croydon 03 May 1947 22 May 1950 3 years 20 days
Member for Croydon 27 May 1944 29 Mar 1947 2 years 10 months 3 days
Member for Croydon 10 May 1941 24 Apr 1944 2 years 11 months 15 days
Member for Croydon 07 Sep 1940 18 Apr 1941 7 months 12 days
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 07 Sep 1940 02 Apr 1976 35 years 6 months 27 days
Political Party Activity
Liberal Party. Councillor of United Australia Party (UAP) 1937 - 1939, 1940 - 1942
Community Activity
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Insurance broker. Educated at New South Wales Institute for Deaf and Blind Children; insurance broker and adviser; honorary treasurer; later became a life member of the Blinded Servicemen's Club; vice president of Royal New South Wales Institute for Deaf and Blind Children; chairman of Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children; member of Royal Australian Historical Society; president of Savage Club
Military Service
Honours Received
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1975
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of George Hunter, commercial traveller, from Yorkshire, England and Mary Selina Bennett. Unmarried. Church of England.
Additional Information

The Parliament of New South Wales acknowledges and respects the traditional lands of all Aboriginal people, and pays respects to all Elders past and present. We acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which the Parliament of New South Wales stands.