Victor Doney was an Australian politician who was a Country Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1928 to 1956.
10 Facts About Victor Doney
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Victor Doney served as a minister in the government of Sir Ross McLarty.
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Victor Doney came to Western Australia in 1912, and settled on a farm at Mullewa.
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Victor Doney was elected to the Mullewa Road Board in 1914, and served as chairman for a period, but the following year enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force.
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Victor Doney served in France with the 28th Battalion, and in July 1916 was wounded in action.
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Victor Doney returned to Australia after being discharged in June 1919, and worked as a property inspector for the Agricultural Bank of Western Australia in Mullewa and Narrogin.
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Victor Doney entered parliament at a by-election in November 1928, winning the seat of Williams-Narrogin unopposed after the resignation of Bertie Johnston.
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Victor Doney's seat was abolished at the 1950 election, and he transferred to the new seat of Narrogin.
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Victor Doney remained in the ministry until the government's defeat at the 1953 election, and left parliament at the 1956 election.
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Victor Doney had married Dorothy Mary Beech in 1920, with whom he had three children.