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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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Vince Gair. Archive Footage: This Day Tonight. Vince Gair was born on 25 February 1901 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. He was married to Ellen (Nell) Mary Sexton and Florence Glynn.
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- February 25, 1901
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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. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democrati
The Gair Affair was an episode in Australian political life in 1974, during the government led by the Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.Whitlam offered the post of Ambassador to Ireland to a non-government senator from Queensland, Vince Gair, in the hope that this would improve Labor's chance of gaining a majority in the Senate at the forthcoming general election.
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Vincent Clair Gair was born on 25th February 1901 at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, the fifth son of Scottish-born John Gair and Irish-born Catherine McGuire, and raised a Catholic. His parents were founding members of the Labor Party in Queensland in the 1890s. Gair began work with the Department of Railways upon the family's move to ...
Name: Vincent Clare Gair: Alternative Names: Vincent Clair Gair ; Born: 25 February, 1901 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Died: 11 November, 1980 (aged 79)
