Frank Gibson (politician)

Sir Frank Ernest Gibson (11 July 1878 – 31 December 1965) was an Australian politician.

Born at Egerton, Victoria, to Irish-born policeman Alexander Gibson and Louisa Herring, he attended Grenville College and the School of Mines at Ballarat before moving to Western Australia as a qualified pharmacist, setting up a business in Leonora in 1909. He married Jean Rodger Dunkley on 10 August 1911 at Kalgoorlie. In 1914 he moved to Fremantle, of which he was mayor for twenty-nine years (1919–23, 1926–52). In 1921 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the Nationalist member for Fremantle; he was defeated in 1924. He was later a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1942 to 1956, in 1945 being one of the foundation members of the Liberal Party. He was knighted in 1948. He died at Shenton Park in 1965.^[1]

References

^ "Sir Frank Ernest Gibson". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. 2005. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gibson-sir-frank-ernest-12934. Retrieved 8 October 2011.

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Name	Gibson, Frank
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Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	11 July 1878
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Date of death	31 December 1965
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