Sydney Sampson
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Sydney Sampson was an Australian businessman and politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1906 to 1919, representing the Division of Wimmera in Victoria. Outside of polit
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Sampson as a member of parliament
Robert Menzies
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Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the leader of the United
Sydney Sampson
…the Country Press Co-operative of Victoria, and also served on the boards of a pottery firm and a fire insurance company. He was a mentor to his nephew Robert Menzies, who followed him into politics and would become the longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia. In 1891, Sampson married Matilda Brewer in St Arnaud…
Official portrait, 1950
Article in Melbourne Punch detailing Menzies's feat of topping the state school examinations at the age of 13
Declaration of War Broadcast, September 1939
Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, with his British counterpart, Winston Churchill, London 1941