Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Senate, and from 1950 until his retirement, Brown was the sole Father. He died in 1967. Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (11 February 1885 – 12 January 1967) was a long-serving Australian politician. Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School. He was apprenticed as a pattern maker but had a range of other jobs including piano salesman and coal miner. He visited Canada where he was imprisoned for street agitation. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party. He spent time
John Gordon (Victorian politician) John Gordon (Victorian politician) John Gordon (27 September 1858 – 3 December 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born in Wallan to farmer Neil Gordon and Margaret McKay. He grew up around Balmattan, Benalla and Euroa, and became a general storekeeper aroudn 1878 at Nagambie. He also acquired land in the area and grazed sheep and shorthorn cattle. He served on Goulburn Valley Shire Council from 1896 to 1926 and was thrice president (1899–1900, 1908–09, 1917–18). In 1911 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Waranga. A Liberal and then a Nationalist, he served as