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    William Forgan Smith (15 April 1887 – 25 September 1953) was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of the state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942...
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  • (1917–1990), U.S. Attorney General William Forgan Smith (1887–1952), Premier of the Australian state of Queensland William F. Smith, Jr. (died 1945), lieutenant...
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  • (Australia) William Laird Smith (1869–1942), Australian representative for Denison, 1910–1922 and Minister for the Navy, 1920–1921 William Forgan Smith (1887–1953)...
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  • The Forgan Smith Building is the centrepiece of the Great Court structure in the main campus of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. The...
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    Treasurer and Secretary for Public Instruction upon the election of William Forgan Smith as premier of a new ALP government in 1932. By 1938 Cooper was sitting...
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    continued internal bickering. The CPNP was defeated by Labor under William Forgan Smith. Moore kept the CPNP together as leader until the disastrous defeat...
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  • The Forgan Smith Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Labor Premier William Forgan Smith. It succeeded the Moore Ministry...
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  • Forgan (1891–1976), British politician Tommy Forgan (1929–2019), English football goalkeeper William Forgan Smith (1887–1953), premier of Queensland, Australia...
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    headstone at Brisbane's Toowong Cemetery. Hanlon as a minister in the William Forgan Smith cabinet, c. 1939. "Ned Hanlon always was a fighter". The Courier-Mail...
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  • 17 January 1968 10 years, 158 days 1957 1960 1963 1966   3. 24th William Forgan Smith (1887–1953) Labor Mackay (1915–1942) 17 June 1932 16 September 1942...
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    with the first sod being turned by the then Premier of Queensland, William Forgan Smith. Components for the bridge were fabricated in a purpose-built factory...
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    William McCormack (27 April 1879 – 21 November 1947) was Premier of Queensland, Australia, from 1925 to 1929. McCormack was born on 27 April 1879 in St...
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    Parliament is sitting. At other times the premier's ministerial office is in 1 William Street, which is across the road from the Executive Annexe. Before the...
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    the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government of Premier William Forgan Smith was seeking a second term after having defeated the Country and Progressive...
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    Labor's dominance in the seat began in 1915 when it was won by William Forgan Smith, who served as Premier of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He retired...
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    Queensland. The opposition was fractured and weak, and the Government of William Forgan Smith very secure. Nicklin's preferred area was agriculture, and he made...
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    attempting to secure parliamentary representation as early as the mid-1880s. William McNaughton Galloway, the president of the Seamen's Union, mounted an unsuccessful...
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    Presbyterian Church of Queensland; the ceremony was attended by William Forgan Smith, the Queensland Premier, and Alfred H. Langdon, Mayor of Redcliffe...
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    couple had two sons. Gair was a backbencher for ten years during the William Forgan Smith government before being appointed as Secretary for Mines under the...
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    (1915–1919) Ted Theodore (1919–1925) William Gillies (1925) William McCormack (1925–1929) William Forgan Smith (1932–1942) Frank Cooper (1942–1946) Ned...
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  • 1921) 1887 – Felix Pipes, Austrian tennis player (d. 1983) 1887 – William Forgan Smith, Scottish-Australian politician, 24th Premier of Queensland (d. 1953)...
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    defeat of the one-term Moore government by the Labor Party, led by William Forgan Smith. The election saw a major swing to Labor from the 1929 election....
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  • Queensland University in 1994. In 1941, the Queensland Labor Premier, William Forgan Smith, introduced section 17 of the National Education Co-ordination and...
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    and is Queensland's fourth longest serving Premier after Labor's William Forgan Smith (1932–1942), the Country Party's Frank Nicklin (1957–1968) and National...
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    Wendell Sailor, Rugby League Player Brett Seymour, Rugby League player William Forgan Smith, 24th Premier of Queensland Clint Steindl, NBL and Australian basketball...
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    attempt to take hostage the Queensland Government led by Labor Premier William Forgan Smith, in an event that became known as the Pineapple rebellion. During...
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  • considerable political influence through long-serving premiers such as William Forgan Smith and Ned Hanlon. The federation of the Australian colonies in 1901...
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    old Forgan Bridge commenced in May 2008 and was completed in August 2011. The original Forgan Bridge was opened on 30 March 1938 by Mrs Forgan Smith, wife...
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    such; the first reference in Hansard to a deputy premier was during the Forgan Smith Ministry in 1936, but the term was in common use in newspapers from as...
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    Labor Premier of Queensland to win four consecutive elections since William Forgan Smith did so in the 1930s. Had Beattie served out his fourth term, he would...
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