- Hubert Lazzarini
Hubert Peter Lazzarini (
8 September 1884 –1 October 1952 ) was anAustralia n politician, holding thedivision of Werriwa as theAustralian Labor Party member for most years from 1919 until his death.Lazzarini was born in
Young, New South Wales , ninth child of an Italian-born father and Australian mother, and educated in Catholic schools. He worked as a Draper in Germanton and married Constance Maude Williams in 1916. In 1919 he moved to theSydney suburb of Dulwich Hill.Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Whitlam |first=E. G. |authorlink=Gough Whitlam |year=1976|id=A150087b|title= Lazzarini, Hubert Peter (Bert) (1884 - 1952) |accessdate=2007-09-01]Lazzarini won the seat of Werriwa in the 1919 election, when it was a rural electorate that included the Southern Highlands, Goulburn and part of the South West Slopes, including Young. He won re-election at the 1922, 1925, 1928 and 1929 elections when Werriwa had moved eastward to include the
Illawarra andSutherland Shire , but had lost the South West Slopes and some of the Southern Highlands. He was a part of break-awayLang Labor from 1931 to 1936. He lost the seat at the 1931 election and regained it at the 1934 election, when it included the Sydney suburb of Liverpool—which was then semi-rural—for the first time and had lost Goulburn. He was Minister for Home Security and Minister assisting the Treasurer inJohn Curtin 's first and second ministry and Minister for Works and Housing inBen Chifley 's first ministry. The Chifley government was defeated at the 1949, but Lazzarini was re-elected for Werriwa, which had been redistributed to lose the llawarra.Lazzarini died of cerebral haemorrhage in the Sydney suburb of Fairfield, survived by his wife, son and two daughters.
Gough Whitlam succeeded him in the seat of Werriwa at the 1952 by-election.Carlo Lazzarini is Hubert's brother and was also a member of parliament, and died one month after Hubert.Notes
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NAME = Lazzarini, Hubert Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Lazzarini, Bert
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DATE OF BIRTH =8 September 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH =Young, New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH =1 October 1952
PLACE OF DEATH =Fairfield, New South Wales
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