Albert James | |
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Member of the Australian Parliament for Hunter | |
In office 9 April 1960 – 19 September 1980 | |
Preceded by | H. V. Evatt |
Succeeded by | Bob Brown |
Personal details | |
Born | Collie, Western Australia | 22 September 1914
Died | 30 September 2006 Booragul, New South Wales | (aged 92)
Political party | Australian Labor Party |
Relations | Rowley James (father) |
Occupation | Policeman |
Albert William James (22 September 1914 – 30 September 2006) was an Australian politician. He was born in Collie, Western Australia, the son of Rowley James, a future Labor member for Hunter in the Australian House of Representatives. Albert was educated at state schools in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales. He was a policeman from 1940 to 1960, when he contested the by-election for his father's old seat of Hunter that followed H. V. Evatt's resignation. He held Hunter until his retirement in 1980. James died in 2006.[1]