Robert Cosgrove

Robert Cosgrove

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honorific-prefix = The Honourable
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Sir Robert Cosgrove
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caption = Sir Robert Cosgrove KCMG
order = 30th
office = Premier of Tasmania
term_start = December 18, 1939
term_end = December 18, 1947
predecessor = Edmund Dwyer-Gray
successor = Edward Brooker
term_start1 = February 25, 1948
term_end1 = August 26, 1958
predecessor1 = Edward Brooker
successor1 = Eric Reece
birth_date = Birth date|1884|12|28
birth_place = Tea Tree, Tasmania, Australia
death_date = Death date and age|1969|8|25|1884|12|28
death_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
nationality = flagicon|Australia Australian
party = Australian Labor Party
constituency = Denison
spouse = Dame Gertrude Cosgrove
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children =
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religion = Roman Catholic


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Sir Robert Cosgrove KCMG (December 28 1884 – August 25 1969) was an Australian politician, trade unionist, and twice Premier of Tasmania from December 18 1939 to December 18 1947 and February 25 1948 to August 26 1958.

His eighteen years as premier remains the longest in Tasmania's history; he dominated the state's Australian Labor Party branch for a generation.

He was minister administering the Hydro-Electric Commission Act for sixteen years between 1942 and 1958 [Garvie, R. M. H. (1962) "A million horses: Tasmania's power in the mountains" Hobart: Hydro-Electric Commission, Tasmania. page 27 ]

He was married to Dame Gertrude Cosgrove from 1911 until her death in 1962; they had four children, including a son who was killed in World War II. She was appointed DBE in 1947.

Cosgrove was chairman of the Tasmanian Tourist Council and of the Southern Tasmanian Trotting Association. He was also a member of the council of the University of Tasmania (1940-46 and 1948-55) and of the local branch of the St Vincent de Paul Society, and president of the Royal Hobart Golf Club.

Cosgrove was knighted as a KCMG in 1958.

References

External links

* [http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/history/tasparl/cosgrover355.htm Parliamentary Library profile]
* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130561b.htm Biography at ADB Online]


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