Leo Mervyn Nott (27 October 1915 – 19 September 1992) was an Australian politician and a member of the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

between 1953 and 1968 and again between 1971 and 1973. He was a member of the NSW Branch of the Labor Party.

Early life

Nott was born at

Dunedoo, New South Wales Dunedoo ( ) is a village of 1,021 inhabitants situated within the Warrumbungle Shire of central western New South Wales, Australia. Dunedoo is well known to Australian travellers due to its distinctive name ('' Dunny'' is a colloquial Australia ...

and was the son of a farmer. His brother, on Roger Nott, CBE was a member of the Legislative Assembly between 1941 and 1961 and a minister between 1954 and 1961. He was educated to elementary level at Dunedoo Catholic School and initially worked as a shearer and farm hand before becoming a sheep and wheat farmer. He was active in community organizations in the Dunedoo area including the Land Board, Hospital Board and Wheatgrowers' Union. Nott was elected to Gulgong Shire Council between 1950 and 1953 and was the Shire President in 1951–53.

Political career

Nott was elected to the parliament as the Labor member for

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at the 1953 state election in an election marked by a resurgence in Labor support in rural NSW. He was the chairman of Labor's Country Conference between 1949 and 1952 but did not hold any other party, parliamentary or ministerial office. Nott retained the seat for Labor at the next four elections until it was abolished in

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. Nott then retired from public life and worked at the Daily Telegraph. He was persuaded to stand again, as the Labor candidate for the seat of Burrendong, which had replaced Mudgee, at the 1971 state election, defeating the sitting Country Party member,

Roger Wotton Roger Corfield Anson Wotton (14 June 1919 – 6 September 2012) was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party (later National Party) member for Burrendong from 1968 to 1971 and from 1973 to 1981, and then for Castlereagh from 198 ...

. However, the result was reversed at the next election in

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and Nott did not contest any further elections. After leaving parliament he retired.Daughter

References

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