Gordon Scholes

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(The Hon.) Gordon Glen Denton Scholes AO (born 7 June 1931) was an Australian politician.

Scholes was born in Melbourne and was a councillor of the Geelong City Council from 1965 to 1967. He won the House of Representatives seat of Corio at a by-election in 1967, following Hubert Opperman's retirement. He was Speaker from 27 February 1975 until 16 February 1976, the day before the election of his successor following the 1975 election.

Scholes was Minister for Defence in the first Hawke Ministry from March 1983 to December 1984 and then Minister for Territories until July 1987. He retired before the 1993 election.^[1]

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Political offices
Preceded by Ian Sinclair	Australian Minister for Defence 1983 – 1984	Succeeded by Kim Beazley
Preceded by Tom Uren	Australian Minister for Territories 1984 – 1987	Succeeded by John Brown
Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Hubert Opperman	Member for Corio 1967 – 1993	Succeeded by Gavan O'Connor
Preceded by James Cope	Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives 1975 – 1976	Succeeded by Billy Snedden

Persondata
NAME	Scholes, Gordon Glen Denton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	7 June 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH	Living person
PLACE OF DEATH