First Menzies ministry
First Menzies ministry | |
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25th Ministry of Australia | |
Robert Menzies Billy Hughes | |
Date formed | 26 April 1939 |
Date dissolved | 14 March 1940 |
People and organisations | |
Monarch | George VI |
Governor-General | Lord Gowrie |
Prime Minister | Robert Menzies |
No. of ministers | 16 |
Member party | United Australia |
Status in legislature | Minority government |
Opposition party | Labor |
Opposition leader | John Curtin |
History | |
Legislature term | 15th |
Predecessor | Page ministry |
Successor | Second Menzies ministry |
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Prime Minister of Australia First term of government (1939–1941) Second term of government (1949–1966)
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The First Menzies ministry (United Australia) was the 25th ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 12th Prime Minister, Robert Menzies. The First Menzies ministry succeeded the Page ministry, which dissolved on 26 April 1939 following the election of Menzies as UAP leader after the death of former Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. However, due to the Country Party withdrawing from the Coalition after relations between caretaker Prime Minister Sir Earle Page and Menzies broke down, the First Menzies ministry was composed solely of UAP ministers, and was effectively a minority government. The ministry was replaced by the Second Menzies ministry on 14 March 1940 after Menzies took the Country Party back into his government - now led by Archie Cameron.[1]
Percy Spender, who died in 1985, was the last surviving member of the First Menzies ministry; Spender was also the last surviving minister of the Second Menzies ministry, Third Menzies ministry, Fadden ministry, and the Fourth Menzies ministry.
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[edit]- ^ "Ministries and Cabinets". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2010.