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   Brisbane City Council Library, BCC-B120-14565. Vincent Clare (Clair) Gair (1901-1980), railway clerk and premier, was born on 25 February 1901 at Rockhampton, Queensland, eighth child of John Alexander Gair, a prison warder from Scotland, and his wife Catherine Mary, née Maguire (d.1950), a nurse from Ireland.

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   Explore genealogy for Vince Gair born 1901 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia died 1980 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia including parents + children + 1 photos + more in the free family tree community.

   • Birth Date: February 25, 1901

   • Death Date: November 11, 1980

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   Who was Vincent Clare Gair?

   • Vincent Clare Gair was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, on 25 February 1901. He was the eighth of the ten children of John Alexander Gair, prison warder, and Catherine Mary, née Maguire. John Gair immigrated to Queensland from Scotland in 1885, where he had worked as a publican and hospital orderly.

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   Who was Vince Gair?

   • 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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   Who was John Gair?

   • 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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   What was Gair's government like?

   • Gair’s government was extremely socially conservative, bringing in a separate body to deal with the censorship of published material at a state level.

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4. biography.senate.gov.au › gair-vincent-clareGAIR, Vincent Clare (1901–1980) - aph.gov.au

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   In the subsequent election on 3 August, both Labor parties were routed, and the conservative coalition, under the leadership of Frank Nicklin, commenced thirty-two years in power. Gair retained his seat in Parliament, but the QLP was reduced from twenty-five members to eleven in the 1957 elections.

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   Media in category "Vince Gair" The following 25 files are in this category, out of 25 total. Queensland State Archives 4686 Hon VC Gair MLA Premier of Queensland December 1952.png 720 × 496; 226 KB

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   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.

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   Gair, Vincent Clare (Vince) (1901–1980) railway clerk and premier