Gordon Webber (politician) Gordon Webber (politician) Gordon Charles Webber (6 January 1885 – 4 June 1960) was an Australian politician. He was born in Richmond to carpenter Henry Moore Webber and Harriett Bastin. He attended state school in Collingwood and then worked as a saddler. He eventually became a wickerworker, and served as president of the Wickerworkers' Union. On 6 February 1915 he married Doris Edna Brown, with whom he had one son; he would later remarry Maud Glenister on 12 January 1922 and have a further three children. During World War I he served with the 4th Light Horse as a stretcher-bearer.
David Gordon (Australian politician) as a member of the House of Representatives at the 1911 Boothby by-election following the death of Labor incumbent Lee Batchelor. In parliament Gordon was a vocal supporter of the development of South and central Australia and was a member of the Royal Commission on the fruit industry. Gordon lost his seat at the 1913 election but switched to state politics and was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council in 1913. Gordon was appointed Minister for Education and Repatriation by Premier Archibald Peake in July 1917 but resigned the next month in protest at the Commonwealth Liberal Party's coalition