1. Cyril Chambers CBE was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1958, representing the Labor Party.
10 Facts About Cyril Chambers
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Cyril Chambers was Minister for the Army in the Chifley government from 1946 to 1949.
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Cyril Chambers was educated at St John the Baptist's School, Thebarton, and Hayward's Academy, Adelaide.
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Cyril Chambers was mayor of Henley and Grange from 1932 to 1934.
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Cyril Chambers was elected as the Labor member of the House of Representatives seat of Adelaide at the 1943 election and was appointed Minister for the Army following the 1946 election in the second Chifley ministry.
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Cyril Chambers died in 1954 and in October 1956 he married Janet Sanderson Pullen.
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On 8 August 1957, Cyril Chambers publicly called on Evatt to resign as party leader, accusing him of "fomenting discord wherever he goes" and of contributing to the party's loss at the 1957 Queensland state election.
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Cyril Chambers sat as an independent until 16 June 1958, when he was re-admitted to the Labor Party.
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Cyril Chambers worked as an immigration selection officer in Belfast, Rome and Scotland from 1959 to 1962 and then worked in Adelaide as a welfare consultant.
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Cyril Chambers died in Hawthorn, South Australia, survived by his third wife, but he had no children.