Joseph Totterdell

Sir Joseph Totterdell

Lord Mayor of Perth
In office 24 November 1945 – 30 November 1953
Preceded by	Sir Thomas Meagher
Succeeded by	James Murray
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia
In office 25 March 1950 – 14 February 1953
Preceded by	Ross McDonald
Succeeded by	Stanley Heal
Constituency	West Perth

Personal details
Born	(1885-08-04)4 August 1885 Marple, Cheshire, England
Died	26 December 1959(1959-12-26) (aged 74) Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Political party	Liberal

Sir Joseph Totterdell (4 August 1885 – 26 December 1959) was an Australian politician who was the Lord Mayor of Perth from 1945 to 1953. He was also a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1950 to 1953, representing the seat of West Perth.

Totterdell was born in Marple, Cheshire, England. Apprenticed to a bricklayer after leaving school, he emigrated to Australia in 1903, eventually opening a building firm with his brothers. Totterdell was elected to the City of Perth council in 1931, and served as a councillor until 1945, when he was elected lord mayor.^[1] At the 1950 state election, while still remaining lord mayor, he successfully contested the seat of West Perth for the Liberal Party, replacing a former leader of the party, Robert Ross McDonald. However, Totterdell would serve only a single term in parliament, as at the 1953 election he was defeated by the high-profile Labor candidate, Stan Heal (a former Australian rules footballer).^[2] He retired as lord mayor at the end of the same year,^[1] having been knighted in the 1953 New Year Honours.^[3]

References

1 2 Joseph Totterdell – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
↑ Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
↑ "No. 39732". The London Gazette. 1 January 1953. p. 2.

Parliament of Western Australia
Preceded by Ross McDonald	Member for West Perth 1933–1950	Succeeded by Stanley Heal

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