Don May (politician)
Ross Elliott | |
|---|---|
| Constituency | Canning |
| In office 23 March 1968 – 19 February 1977 | |
| Preceded by | None (new creation) |
| Succeeded by | Tony Williams |
| Constituency | Clontarf |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 February 1924 Labor |
Donald George May (15 February 1924 – 23 September 2001) was an Australian politician who was a
Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1962 to 1965 and again from 1968 to 1977. He was a minister in the government of John Tonkin
.
Early life
May was born in
Perth Technical College. He worked as a coal miner and a railway clerk after leaving school, and in 1943 enlisted in the Australian Army, serving in the Pacific as a private with the 2/2nd Commando Squadron. Upon his return to Australia he secured work as a public relations officer with Western Australian Government Railways.[1]
Politics
A member of the Labor Party since 1941, May stood for parliament at the
Liberal Party candidate. He returned to parliament at the 1968 election as the member for the new seat of Clontarf, located in Perth's southern suburbs.[2]
May increased his majority at the
Minister for Electricity. In July 1972, he also replaced Arthur Bickerton as Minister for Fuel. The Tonkin government was defeated at the 1974 election, but May remained a member of the Tonkin shadow cabinet, and later the shadow cabinet of Colin Jamieson, who replaced Tonkin as leader in 1976. He left parliament at the 1977 election, and worked for a period as chief industrial personnel officer of CBH Group, a grain growers' cooperative. May died in September 2001, aged 77. He married twice, having three children by his first wife.[1]
See also
- Tonkin Ministry (Western Australia)
- Tonkin Shadow Ministry
References
- ^ a b c Donald George May Sr – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ ISBN 0730984095.