Liberal Country Party

{{Distinguish|Liberal and Country Party|Liberal and Country League|Country Liberal Party}}

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The Liberal Country Party (LCP) was a splinter group of the United Country Party, the Victorian branch of the Australian Country Party, formed after federal MP John McEwen was expelled from the state branch for accepting a ministry in the Lyons-Page Coalition government in 1937. Following a tumultuous party conference in 1938, another federal MP, Thomas Paterson, led a hundred McEwen supporters to form the LCP, a faction of the party loyal to the federal party.

{{Australian Dictionary of Biography

|first=B. J.

|last=Costar

|title=Paterson, Thomas (1882–1952)

|id2=paterson-thomas-7974

|year=1988

|access-date=3 September 2014

}} The breach had been resolved by 1943.

{{cite news

|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article144118687

|title=Victorian C.P. Amalgamation.

|newspaper=The Daily Advertiser

|location=Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.

|date=10 April 1943

|access-date=3 September 2014

|page=2

|publisher=National Library of Australia

}}