First Menzies ministry
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Template:Infobox government cabinet Template:Robert Menzies sidebar The First Menzies ministry (United Australia) was the 25th ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 12th Prime Minister, Robert Menzies. The First Menzies ministry succeeded the Page ministry, which dissolved on 26 April 1939 following the election of Menzies as UAP leader after the death of former Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. However, due to the Country Party withdrawing from the Coalition after relations between caretaker Prime Minister Sir Earle Page and Menzies broke down, the First Menzies ministry was composed solely of UAP ministers, and was effectively a minority government. The ministry was replaced by the Second Menzies ministry on 14 March 1940 after Menzies took the Country Party back into his government - now led by Archie Cameron.[1]
Percy Spender, who died in 1985, was the last surviving member of the First Menzies ministry; Spender was also the last surviving minister of the Second Menzies ministry, Third Menzies ministry, Fadden ministry, and the Fourth Menzies ministry.
Ministry
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| Template:Australian party style| | United Australia | Robert Menzies (1894–1978)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Kooyong |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Billy Hughes (1862–1952)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for North Sydney |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Geoffrey Street (1894–1940)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Corangamite |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Richard Casey (1890–1976)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Corio |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Sir Henry Gullett (1878–1940)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Henty |
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| Template:Australian party style| | George McLeay (1892–1955)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Senator for South Australia |
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| Template:Australian party style| | John Lawson (1897–1956)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Macquarie |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Eric Harrison (1892–1974)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Wentworth |
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| Template:Australian party style| | James Fairbairn (1897–1940)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Flinders |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Sir Frederick Stewart (1884–1961)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Parramatta |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Harry Foll (1890–1977)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Senator for Queensland |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Percy Spender (1897–1985)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Warringah |
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| Template:Australian party style| | John Perkins (1878–1954)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Eden-Monaro |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Herbert Collett (1877–1947)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Senator for Western Australia |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Harold Holt (1908–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Post-nominals for Fawkner |
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| Template:Australian party style| | Philip McBride (1892–1982)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Senator for South Australia |
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Notes
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