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     • After consulting his cabinet colleagues, but not caucus, he replied in the affirmative and was sworn in as premier on 17 January 1952.
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   Who was Vincent Clair Gair?

   • Vincent Clair Gair (25 February 1901 – 11 November 1980) was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party from 1965 to 1973.

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   • According to the official record of the Senate, Vince Gair remained a senator until 11 April 1974, at which time he retired. At the election, all five Senate seats held by the DLP were lost, and that was the effective end of the party as a viable force in Australian politics. The party was wound up in 1978.

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   • Vince Gair was above all a controversial figure. Rotund, chubby faced, 5 ft 6 ins (168 cm) tall and 'invincibly amiable', he was nicknamed 'Friar Tuck'. While never a great policy innovator, in his prime he was a consummate political tactician and negotiator who 'could be wilful, impatient and . . . arbitrary'.

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   • John Gair immigrated to Queensland from Scotland in 1885, where he had worked as a publican and hospital orderly. He was a ‘strict disciplinarian’ and ‘a life-long supporter of the Labour Party’, but the principal parental influence on young Vince seems to have been his Irish-born mother.

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   Public servant, Ambassador. Vincent Clair Gair (25 February 1901 – 11 November 1980) [2] was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Labor Party.

   • Governor: John Lavarack
   • Succeeded by: Frank Nicklin

   • Political party: Labor

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   He won by one vote—a victory which was to change the course of Queensland politics. On 10 May 1950 Gair became treasurer. He acted as premier during the ailing Hanlon's absences, successfully representing the State at a premiers' conference and loan council meeting.

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   Gair served as Acting Premier for extended periods during the long, final illness of Premier Ned Hanlon. When Hanlon died on 15 January 1952, Gair succeeded him. Gair’s first three years as premier were prosperous, stable and peaceful, as Queensland continued to recover from the exigencies of war.

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   Premier of Queensland 1952-1957 and Ambassador to Ireland. Vince Gair was born in Rockhampton, the eight child of John Alexander Gair and Catherine Mary Gair.He was educated at Leichhardt State School and St Joseph's Christians Brothers. He started his working life at the Qld Railways in 1916 and in the same year his...

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   Aug 21, 2021 · 6.11 gair’s enemies marshall their forces…248 6.12 the problematic issue of three weeks leave…250 chapter seven: the premier and the party: gair and the labor party split in queensland part two: conflagration: from 11 november 1955 to 3 august 1957…255 7.1 the issue of outside dictation…256 7.2 the convention of 1956…261

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   Vincent Clair Gair was Premier and Chief Secretary of Queensland, 17 January 1952 - 12 August 1957. Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 4690

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   Vincent Clair Gair was a former Australian Labor Party (ALP) Premier of Queensland 1952-57 who was expelled from his own party while in office, and formed the breakaway Queensland Labor Party (QLP), which in 1962 merged with the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).