Larry Floyd (politician)
William Laurence "Larry" Floyd OBE (13 July 1908 – 6 October 1999) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Broken Hill to miner William Lawrence Floyd and Jessie Ellen Hank. He attended school locally and then at Williamstown. He was a compositor, and a member of Williamstown City Council from 1945 to 1962. In 1955 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Williamstown. He was secretary of the parliamentary party from 1961 to 1970 and retired from politics in 1973, in which year he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Floyd, who was unmarried, died in 1999.[1]
References
- ↑ Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Floyd, William Laurence". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
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| Preceded by John Lemmon |
Member for Williamstown 1955–1973 |
Succeeded by Gordon Stirling |
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