Frederick William Brawn (21 November 1857 – 24 July 1936) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to storekeeper James Brawn and Sarah Pearce. He attended Creswick Grammar School and became a commission agent in Bloomfield and then a shareholder in

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. On 27 April 1886 he married Alice Vipond; later, following her death in 1917, he married Florence Reddin on 14 June 1919. He was also later a farmer at Dowling Forest. He served on Ballarat City Council from 1904 to 1919, and was twice mayor (1907–08, 1915–16). In 1907 he won a by-election for

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in the

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. A non-

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member, he later joined the Liberal,

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and United Australia parties. He was a minister without portfolio from March to July 1924 and again from July to December 1929. He retired in 1934 and died in Ballarat in 1936.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brawn, Frederick 1857 births 1936 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria United Australia Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council People from Creswick, Victoria People from the Colony of Victoria 20th-century mayors of places in Australia Mayors of Ballarat