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Leslie Victor "Les" Shilton (4 November 1923 – 16 December 1995) was an Australian politician. He was born in
Traralgon Traralgon ( , ) is a city located in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia and the most populous city in the City of Latrobe and the region. The urban population of Traralgon at the ...
to schoolteacher Harold Robert Charles Shilton and Alice May Sturgess. He served in
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during
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from 1941 to 1945, and on his return became a police officer, spending many years with the
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. On 8 December 1945 he married Faye Sarll; they had two daughters. In 1965 he was elected to Seymour Shire Council; he was president from 1967 to 1968. In 1970 he was elected to the
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as the
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member for
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, but he was defeated in 1973. After his defeat he became a bank officer. Shilton died in 1995.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shilton, Les 1923 births 1995 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians People from Traralgon