Alexander Tattenhall Dewar (19 June 1912 – 7 January 1995) was a leather manufacturer and member of the

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Early life

Dewar was born in

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, to parents Alexander Sawers Dewar and his wife Elizabeth Fraser (née Macdonald). He was educated at Chermside and

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State Schools and the Commercial High School. In

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he served in 143rd Australian General Transport Company from 1942 and then joined the RAAF the next year where he achieved the rank of Flying officer and serving in England and Canada. He was discharged in February 1946World War II Nominal Roll
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. Retrieved 12 March 2016. and took up work at the family leather manufacturing in Kedron.And here are some new faces
— The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 12 March 2016.

Political career

At the 1950 state election, Dewar contested the new seat of Chermside for the Liberal Party and defeated Labor's J.B. Macarthur.This is how you voted at yesterday's election
— The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 12 March 2016. He held the seat until it was abolished for the 1960 election. He then won the seat of Wavell, holding it until his defeat in

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. During his time in Parliament he was Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Problems of Youth (1957-1959), Minister for Labour and Industry (1963-1965), Minister for Industrial Development (1965-1967) and deputy leader of the Liberal Party in 1965. He was forced to resign as Minister for Industrial Development in 1967 for allegedly "kissing and certain other actions" with two girls from the Department of Labor and Tourism. Dewar was outraged at the accusations and accused departmental public servants of spreading the story. He resigned from the Liberal Party in August 1968 and sat as an Independent Liberal for the last year of his parliamentary career.

Personal life

On the 16 Nov 1946, Dewar married Ailsa Marjorie Drain (died 1991)Ailsa Marjorie Dewar ( - 1991)
— Heaven Address. Retrieved 12 March 2016. and together had one son and one daughter. Dewar died in January 1995 and was

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at Albany Creek Memorial Park Crematorium.Alexander Tattenhall Dewar ( - 1995)
— Heaven Address. Retrieved 12 March 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dewar, Alexander Tattenhall Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1912 births 1995 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland 20th-century Australian politicians