Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor
Secretary Subiaco branch for 14 years prior to election to Parliament |
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7 April 1956 |
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Subiaco |
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Electorates
- MLA Subiaco 7 April 1956–21 March 1959
- Contested Subiaco 21 March 1959, 31 March 1962
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1959 |
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Personal Information |
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4 September 1906 |
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Whitesmith Laughton, Hailsham, Sussex, England, United Kingdom |
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17 August 1975 |
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Hamersley Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To WA as a young child |
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Son of Percival Potter, farmer, ordinance inspector and orchardist, and Martha Charlotte Mayes |
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Married (1) 19 January 1935, District Registry Office, Perth to Mary Jane Forcus (nee Morley— previously widowed and divorced), daughter of James and Mary Mulholland
No children
Widowed 6 August 1968
Married (2) 14 December 1971, District Registry Office, Perth to Henrietta Leonard (born circa 1915 and 27 February 2001), daughter of Harry Leonard and Mary Hunter
No children (one stepdaughter) |
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Church of England |
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Educated Denmark and Victoria Park State schools until the age of 15 years
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Clerk |
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After leaving school worked as a messenger for the Crown Law Department in the Supreme Court
Clerk in Workers’ Homes Board 1924–1927
Subsequently employed as a book-keeper on several stations in the north including the Roebourne area, then paymaster at the Wiluna mines circa 1938
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force 24 April 1940; served in 2/32nd Battalion at Tobruk—promoted Sergeant 21 April 1941, invalided home, discharged 30 September 1942
Clerk at the Treasury 1943–1945, then pay officer for the Army Rehabilitation Service and employed with the Metropolitan Water Supply
Clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office 1952–1956
Clerk in the School Buildings’ Section and Treasury Accounts from 20 April 1959 and in Government Stores 1963–1971 |
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President Subiaco Returned & Services League 1948–1949, secretary for 11 years |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 213.
West Australian, 10 April 1956, 28 March 1962, 20 August 1975. |
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