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Mabel Flora Miller

Mabel Flora Miller

Surname: MILLER

Given Names: Mabel Flora

Title and Honours: Dame

Qualifications: LLB

Date and Place of Birth: 30 November 1906 - Broken Hill, NSW

Date of Death: 30 December 1978 - Hobart, Tasmania

 

 

House of Assembly: 19 February 1955

Electorate: Franklin

Party: Liberal

Positions Held:

Date of Departure: 2 May 1964

Reason for Departure: Defeated.

Comments:

One of the first two women elected to House of Assembly (Amelia Best was the other). First women elected to Hobart City Council 1952; Deputy Lord Mayor 1954-56, 1964-70. Represented Australia at UNO 1967-69.

House of Assembly Long Room Picture: 523

House of Assembly Long Room Picture Number indicates each Member's position in the photographic record.

Source: Parliament of Tasmania Members Biographical Database, Tasmanian Parliamentary Library.

Additional Reference Material:

A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics, 1890-1964 [by] Colin A. Hughes and B. D. Graham. Canberra, ANU Press, 1968. Biographical Register of the Tasmanian Parliament, 1851-1960 / Scott Bennett and Barbara Bennett. Canberra : ANU, 1980.