Benjamin Courtice was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1937 to 1962.
10 Facts About Ben Courtice
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Ben Courtice served as Minister for Trade and Customs under Ben Chifley from 1946 to 1949.
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Ben Courtice left school at twelve to work in the laboratory of the Millaquin sugar refinery at Bundaberg.
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Ben Courtice married Bertha Demaine in 1910 and they had a son and three daughters before her death in 1925.
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Ben Courtice's older brother Frederick Ben Courtice was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council for the Labor Party, participating in the vote to abolish the council in 1922.
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Ben Courtice was appointed to a casual vacancy in the Australian Senate in 1937.
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Ben Courtice served as Chairman of Committees from 1943 to 1946, resigning to become Minister for Trade and Customs in the second Chifley Ministry.
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Ben Courtice served in cabinet from November 1946 until Labor's defeat at the 1949 election.
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Ben Courtice retired from the Senate at the end of his term in June 1962.
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Ben Courtice died in Bundaberg, survived by the children of his first marriage.