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Ron Brown (Australian politician)

Australian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ16079679 ↗
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Ronald Herbert Brown (29 January 1915 – 5 April 1992) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Glen Huon, Tasmania. In 1948 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Huon. He was Chair of Committees from 1957 until his defeat in 1966.

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The public source identifies “Ron Brown (Australian politician)” as australian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Brown, Australian and politician.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1915, 1992, 1948, 1957—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1915-01-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Brown, Australian and politician providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16079679. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1915, 1992, 1948 and 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ron Brown (Australian politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.