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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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   Vince Gair. 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

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   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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   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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   Vincent Clair Gair. 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.

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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). In 1964 he was elected to federal parliament as a DLP Senator for Queensland, his term ...

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   public servant (1916-1932) Queensland, Australia ; labour politician (1932-1960) Queensland, Australia ; Member of Lower House (1932-1960) Queensland, Australia ; premier (1952-1957) Queensland, Australia ; Member of Upper House (1964-1974) Federal, Australia

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   public servant (1916-1932) Queensland, Australia ; labour politician (1932-1960) Queensland, Australia ; Member of Lower House (1932-1960) Queensland, Australia ; premier (1952-1957) Queensland, Australia ; Member of Upper House (1964-1974) Federal, Australia