Cec Carey
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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| constituency_AM1 = Albert
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 28 May 1960
| term_end1 = 26 Dec 1969
| predecessor1 = New seat
| successor1 = Bill Heatley
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|9|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|12|26|1907|9|21|df=y}}
| death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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| birthname = Cecil Charles Carey
| nationality = Australian
| spouse = Melba May Pain (m.1936)
| party = Country Party
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| occupation = Dairy farmer
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Cecil Charles Carey (21 September 1907 – 26 December 1969) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1853018449|accessdate=3 May 2016}}
Biography
Carey was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Richard Cecil Carey and his wife Mary Jane (née Mason). He was educated at Southport State Primary and High Schools and by 1934 was the manager of his father's grocery business. He later owned and managed a 500-acre dairy farm at Mudgeeraba and was a director of Wood's Transport and W Wood Holdings Pty Ltd. By 1956 he was the chairman of Cecil C Carey Pty Ltd.
On 18 July 1936 Carey married Melba May Pain and together had a son and daughter. He died on Boxing Day, 1969.
Public career
At the 1960 Queensland state election, Carey, the candidate for the Country Party, won the re-established seat of Albert. He held the seat for the next three elections, dying in office in 1969. At the subsequent by-election in 1970, the Country Party lost Albert to Bill Heatley of the Liberal Party.[http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=2518063628 Heatley, Mr William Clarence (Bill)] — Queensland Parliament. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
Carey was a member of the Totalizator Agency Board, the Gold Coast Turf Club, and the Gold Coast Branch of the Red Cross. Also a committee member of the Gold Coast Rugby League, Carey was President of the Gold Coast Senior Citizens Social Club, the Queensland Retail Traders' Association, and the Federal President of the Master Grocers and Storekeepers' Association.
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Category:National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland