Doug Elliot (politician)
Douglas George Elliot (12 February 1917 – 25 March 1989) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
3XY.[1]
On 12 January 1940 he married Heather Bernice Pearce, with whom he had three children. He served with the
Labor Party; he ran as a candidate for the federal seat of Maribyrnong in 1958 but was defeated. In 1960 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in a by-election for Melbourne Province. He served as a backbencher until 1979, when he lost preselection to Evan Walker. However, that year he was elected to Essendon City Council, and he was mayor from 1982 to 1983. Elliot died in 1989.[2]
References
- ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ^ Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Elliot, Douglas George". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
