Gordon McIntosh
{{Short description|Scottish-born Australian politician (1925–2019)}}
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| name = Gordon McIntosh
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| title = Senator for Western Australia
| term_start = 18 May 1974
| term_end = 5 June 1987
|birth_name=Gordon Douglas McIntosh
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| birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|3|10|1925|5|29}}
| death_place = Perth, Western Australia
| nationality = Australian
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| party = Australian Labor Party
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| occupation = Metal worker
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| branch = Royal Air Force
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Gordon Douglas McIntosh (29 May 1925 – 10 March 2019) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.
Early life
Born in Glasgow, he was a toolmaker and served in the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1948.{{cite Au Senate|title=McINTOSH, Gordon Douglas (1925– ) Senator for Western Australia, 1974–87 (Australian Labor Party) |Sen id=mcintosh-gordon-douglas |access-date=6 May 2018}} Having moved to Australia, he was president of the Western Australian branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, and later, following its amalgamation, vice-president of the Western Australian branch of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. In 1974, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Western Australia. He held the seat until his retirement in 1987.{{cite web|last=Carr |first=Adam |title=Australian Election Archive |work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia |year=2008 |access-date=2008-11-19 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723090718/http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia |archivedate=23 July 2008 |df=dmy-all }}[http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=CHAMBER;id=chamber%2Fhansards%2F1987-06-05%2F0085;query=(Dataset%3Aweblastweek,hansardr,noticer,webthisweek,dailyp,votes,journals,orderofbusiness,hansards,notices,websds)%20ParliamentNumber%3A%2234%22%20Party%3A%22ind%22;rec=1 Valedictory Speech], Hansard, 5 June 1987
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Category:British emigrants to Australia
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
Category:Members of the Australian Senate for Western Australia
Category:20th-century Australian politicians
Category:Recipients of the Order of Timor-Leste
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