Claude Stubbs

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use Australian English|date=March 2016}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix = The Honourable

|name = Claude Stubbs

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|office = Member of the Legislative Council
of Western Australia

|constituency = South-East Province

|term_start = 22 May 1962

|term_end = 21 May 1980

|predecessor = John Cunningham

|successor = Jim Brown

|office2= Minister for Local Government

|term_start2= 3 March 1971

|term_end2= 8 April 1974

|premier2= John Tonkin

|predecessor2= Les Logan

|successor2= Cyril Rushton

|birth_name= Robert Henry Clause Stubbs

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|4|2|df=y}}

|birth_place = Northam, Western Australia, Australia

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|5|25|1905|4|2|df=y}}

|death_place = Wembley, Western Australia, Australia

|party = Labor

|spouse= Violet Gammage {{Small|(m. 1931)}}

|children= 3

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Robert Henry Claude Stubbs (2 April 1905 – 25 May 1998) was an Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1962 to 1980, representing South-East Province. He served as a minister in the government of John Tonkin.

Stubbs was born in Northam, Western Australia, to Mary Jane (née Marshall) and Stokes Stubbs. He attended the Kalgoorlie School of Mines and Perth Technical College, and then worked as a miner in Collie. Stubbs moved to Kalgoorlie in 1932, and then to Norseman in 1937, where he eventually became an underground supervisor. He later worked as a health inspector for the Shire of Dundas. Stubbs entered parliament at the 1962 Legislative Council elections, defeating John Cunningham (the sitting Liberal Party member). He was made a Labor Party whip in 1965, and after the Labor victory at the 1971 state election was made Chief Secretary and Minister for Local Government in the new ministry formed by John Tonkin. Stubbs remained in the ministry until the Labor government was defeated at the 1974 election, and left parliament at the 1980 election. He died in Perth in May 1998, aged 93. Stubbs had married Violet Gammage in 1931, with whom he had three children.[http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/042A714D6345A974482577E50028A7E8?OpenDocument Robert Henry Claude Stubbs] – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 13 May 2016.