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Ellen Sexton (1944–1980; his death) [1] Occupation. 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.
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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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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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.
Gair, Vincent Clare (Vince) (1901–1980) railway clerk and premier. Vincent Clare Gair (1901-1980), ... Queensland, Australia. Cultural Heritage. Includes subject's ...
The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland . By convention the premier is the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The premier is appointed by the governor of Queensland . The incumbent premier of Queensland is Steven Miles of the Labor Party .
Vince Gair was Queensland Treasurer from 1950 and Premier from 1952. A vehement anti-Communist, his support for the Catholic-linked Industrial Groups and his attempts to restrict the influence within the Australian Labor Party of both the Australian Workers' Union and the left-wing Queensland Trades and Labor Council led in 1957 to his expulsion from the Party.
