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James Hunter (politician)

Australian politician

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Australian politician

Field	Value
name	James Hunter
image	James Hunter.jpg
constituency_MP	Maranoa
parliament	Australian
predecessor	Jim Page
successor	Frank Baker
term_start	30 July 1921
term_end	27 August 1940
birth_date
birth_place	Springburn, Scotland
death_date
death_place	Sandgate, Queensland
nationality	Scottish Australian
spouse	Florence Phoebe Nason (d. 1960)
party	Australian Country Party
children	2 sons
occupation	Accountant

| honorific-prefix = | honorific-suffix = James Aitchison Johnston Hunter (4 July 1882 – 27 October 1968) was an Australian politician.

Hunter was born at Springburn, near Glasgow, Scotland and migrated with his family to Brisbane in 1884 educated there. He joined the state public service and became an accountant in the Queensland Railways. In 1908, he married Florence Phoebe Nason, who came from a family of pastoralists established near Surat. She predeceased him in 1960 aged 76. In 1912, he set up as a public accountant at Dalby.

Hunter won the Australian House of Representatives seat of Maranoa at a 1921 by-election. In November 1934 he was appointed a minister without portfolio in the third Lyons ministry. He was not reappointed to the ministry after the November 1937 election. In 1936, he cofounded the Queensland Country Party, which replaced the Country and Progressive National Party in Queensland. He retired from parliament ahead of the November 1940 election.

Hunter died at a retirement home in the Brisbane suburb of Sandgate and was buried in Toowong Cemetery.

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References

[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hunter-james-aitchison-johnston-6770 Hunter, James Aitchison Johnston (1882–1968)] — [[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]
link. (8 June 2012 — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 3 January 2015.)

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