Ronald Mack
Australian accountant and politician (1904-1968)
Sir Ronald William Mack (20 May 1904 – 12 February 1968) was an Australian politician.
Mack was born at Warrnambool to wool buyer Frederick David Mack and Elizabeth Edith née Hatton (both Victorian-born). He attended Warrnambool High School and qualified as an accountant in 1927. From 1930 he ran his own accountancy firm. On 16 February 1935 he married Helen Isabel Janet Lindsay, née Nicol (died 1957), a 38-year-old divorcee; they had one son. He later remarried on 20 September 1958 Winifred Helen Crutchfield, née Campion, a 49-year-old widow and a teacher of commerce. From 1939 to 1940 he was a member of Warrnambool City Council. He served in World War II and was twice mentioned in dispatches; he lost his right eye at El Alamein. From 1944, he was again an accountant, and he became involved in the Liberal and Country Party.
Mack served one term in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Warrnambool.
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