Longest-serving members of the Parliament of Victoria
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Longest serving parliamentarians
editA list of the 15 longest-serving members of both Victoria's Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council.
No. | Portrait | Name | Party | House | Electorate | Term began | Term ended | Time in office | Notes | |
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1 | John Lemmon (1875–1955) |
Labor | Legislative Assembly | Williamstown | 1 June 1904 | 22 April 1955 | 50 years, 325 days | [1] [citation needed] | ||
2 | Alexander Peacock (1861–1933) |
Independent | Legislative Assembly | Clunes and Allandale | 9 April 1889 | 1 June 1904 | 44 years, 181 days | [2][3] | ||
United Australia | Allandale | 1 June 1904 | 7 October 1933 | |||||||
3 | Nicholas Fitzgerald (1829–1908) |
Independent | Legislative Council | North Western Province | 29 November 1864 | November 1882 | 43 years, 262 days | [4][5] | ||
North Central Province | November 1882 | 17 August 1908 | ||||||||
4 | Frank Clarke (1879–1955) |
Nationalist | Legislative Council | Northern Province | 6 June 1913 | 4 June 1925 | 41 years, 252 days | [6][7] [8] | ||
United Australia | Melbourne South Province | 4 June 1925 | 12 June 1937 | |||||||
Liberal and Country | Monash Province | 12 June 1937 | 13 February 1955 | |||||||
5 | James Balfour (1830–1913) |
Independent | Legislative Assembly | East Bourke | 12 February 1866 | 19 August 1868 | 41 years, 243 days | [9][10] [11][12] [13][14] | ||
Legislative Council | Southern Province | 30 June 1874 | 30 November 1882 | |||||||
South Eastern Province | 30 November 1882 | 1 June 1904 | ||||||||
East Yarra Province | 1 June 1904 | 24 August 1913 | ||||||||
6 | Albert Lind (1878–1964) |
United Country Party | Legislative Assembly | Gippsland East | 21 October 1920 | 15 July 1961 | 40 years, 267 days | [15][16] [17][18] | ||
7 | Bill Slater (1890–1960) |
Labor | Legislative Assembly | Dundas | 15 November 1917 | 14 May 1932 | 40 years, 244 days | [19][20] [21][22] [23] | ||
6 September 1932 | 8 November 1947 | |||||||||
Legislative Council | Doutta Galla Province | 18 June 1949 | 19 June 1960 | |||||||
8 | Ewen Hugh Cameron (1831–1915) |
Commonwealth Liberal | Legislative Assembly | Evelyn | 19 May 1874 | 26 November 1914 | 40 years, 191 days | [24][25] [26] | ||
9 | Herbert Hyland (1884–1970) |
Country | Legislative Assembly | Gippsland South | 30 November 1929 | 18 March 1970 | 40 years, 108 days | [27][28] | ||
10 | William Angliss (1865–1957) |
Liberal and Country | Legislative Council | Southern Province | 21 June 1912 | 21 June 1952 | 40 years, 0 days | [29][30] [31] | ||
11 | Tom Tunnecliffe (1869–1948) |
Labor | Legislative Assembly | West Melbourne | 15 December 1903 | 1 June 1904 | 39 years, 358 days | [32][33] [34][35] [36][37] [38] | ||
Eaglehawk | 15 March 1907 | 21 October 1920 | ||||||||
Collingwood | 30 August 1921 | 30 July 1947 | ||||||||
12 | William Edgar (1858–1948) |
United Australia | Legislative Council | Melbourne West Province | 1 June 1904 | 6 June 1913 | 39 years, 342 days | [39][40] [41][42] | ||
East Yarra Province | 5 July 1917 | 6 June 1948 | ||||||||
13 | George Prendergast (1854–1937) |
Labor | Legislative Assembly | North Melbourne | 4 October 1894 | 28 September 1897 | 39 years, 295 days | [43][44] [45][46] | ||
1 November 1900 | 9 April 1927 | |||||||||
Footscray | 9 April 1927 | 28 August 1937 | ||||||||
14 | John Cain Sr (1882–1957) |
Labor | Legislative Assembly | Jika Jika | 15 November 1917 | 4 March 1927 | 39 years, 226 days | [47][citation needed] | ||
Northcote | 9 April 1927 | 4 August 1957 | ||||||||
15 | James Jewell (1869–1949) |
Labor | Legislative Assembly | Brunswick | 14 March 1910 | 14 May 1949 | 39 years, 61 days | [48][49] |
Father of the Legislative Assembly
editName | Term length | Time as Father | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Ewen Hugh Cameron | 40 years, 191 days 19 May 1874 – 26 November 1914 |
[50] | |
John Murray | 31 years, 329 days 10 June 1884 – 4 May 1916 |
1 year, 160 days | [51] |
Alfred Richard Outtrim | 32 years, 341 days 16 March 1886 – 1 October 1902 1 June 1904 – 21 October 1920 |
4 years, 170 days | [52][53] |
Alexander Peacock | 44 years, 181 days 9 April 1889 – 7 October 1933 |
12 years, 351 days | [54] |
Richard Toutcher | 37 years, 128 days 25 October 1897 – 2 March 1935 |
1 year, 146 days | [55] |
George Prendergast | 39 years, 289 days 20 September 1894 – 14 October 1897 1 November 1900 – 4 March 1927 9 April 1927 – 28 August 1937 |
2 years, 179 days | |
John Lemmon | 50 years, 325 days 1 June 1904 – 22 April 1955 |
17 years, 237 days | |
John Cain Sr | 39 years, 226 days 15 November 1917 – 4 March 1927 9 April 1927 – 4 August 1957 |
2 years, 104 days | |
Albert Lind | 40 years, 223 days 21 October 1920 – 1 June 1961 |
3 years, 301 days | |
Herbert Hyland | 40 years, 137 days 1 November 1929 – 18 March 1970 |
8 years, 290 days | |
Clive Stoneham | 27 years, 84 days 28 November 1942 – 1 October 1945 10 November 1945 – 1 April 1970 |
14 days | |
George Moss | 27 years, 190 days 10 November 1945 – 19 May 1973 |
3 years, 48 days | |
Tom Mitchell | 28 years, 287 days 7 June 1947 – 20 March 1976 |
2 years, 306 days | |
Sam Loxton | 23 years, 342 days 28 May 1955 – 5 May 1979 |
3 years, 46 days | |
Jim Balfour | 14 years, 339 days 29 April 1967 – 3 April 1982 |
2 years, 333 days | |
Frank Wilkes | 31 years, 10 days 21 September 1957 – 1 October 1988 |
6 years, 181 days | |
Bruce Evans | 31 years, 79 days 15 July 1961 – 2 October 1992 |
4 years, 1 day | |
Ian Smith | 30 years, 141 days 29 April 1967 – 18 September 1999 |
6 years, 351 days | |
Rob Maclellan | 32 years, 184 days 30 May 1970 – 30 November 2002 |
3 years, 73 days | |
Ken Jasper | 34 years, 252 days 20 March 1976 – 27 November 2010 |
7 years, 362 days | |
Robert Clark | 30 years, 54 days 1 October 1988 – 24 November 2018 |
7 years, 362 days | |
Kim Wells | 31 years, 329 days 3 October 1992 – present |
5 years, 277 days |
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editReferences
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