Maxwell William Poulter was an Australian educator and politician.
24 Facts About Max Poulter
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Max Poulter held degrees from the University of Tasmania and Columbia University, including a doctorate in education from the latter.
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Max Poulter was a high school teacher and later lectured at the University of Tasmania and University of Queensland.
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Max Poulter had a long involvement with the Australian Labor Party and was elected as a Senator for Queensland at the 1961 federal election, after two previous unsuccessful candidacies.
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Max Poulter was unable to take his seat and died in 1962 two months after the start of his term.
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Max Poulter was educated at Devonport Primary School and Devonport High School, leaving school in 1930.
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Max Poulter became a probationary student-teacher in 1929 while still at high school and returned as an assistant master in 1936.
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Max Poulter began studying at the University of Tasmania in 1931 and graduated Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Arts, and Diploma of Education.
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Max Poulter worked in Tasmanian state high schools at Devonport, Hobart, Launceston and Burnie.
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Max Poulter was vice-principal of Ogilvie High School in 1945.
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In 1947, Max Poulter was awarded a Tasmanian Government Travelling Scholarship to attend Columbia University in the United States.
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Max Poulter graduated Master of Arts in 1949 and Doctor of Education in 1950, winning multiple scholarships.
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Max Poulter subsequently returned to Tasmania and initially resumed his work as a high school teacher.
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In 1952, Max Poulter was appointed principal of the Launceston Teachers' College and became a part-time lecturer in education and educational psychology at the University of Tasmania.
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Max Poulter returned to the United States in 1953 as a research fellow at Wayne State University, studying "the educational and social implications of television".
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Max Poulter joined the University of Queensland in 1954 as a lecturer in education, later being promoted to senior lecturer.
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Max Poulter frequently travelled to country Queensland to conduct university extension programs.
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Max Poulter first stood for parliament at the 1951 federal election, losing to Liberal candidate Aubrey Luck in the Tasmanian seat of Darwin.
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At the 1958 federal election, Max Poulter was placed third on the ALP Senate ticket in Queensland.
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Max Poulter was unsuccessful, but reprised his candidacy in 1961 and was elected to a term beginning on 1 July 1962.
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Max Poulter died at his home in Taringa on 2 September 1962, aged 49.
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Max Poulter was only the second senator to die without being sworn in, after Lionel Courtenay in 1935.
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Max Poulter married Tasmanian schoolteacher Peggy Wilhelmina Mead in 1941, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
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Max Poulter was divorced in 1953 and in 1954 married American film editor Barbara Goodman, with whom he had another two daughters.