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
Gordon Davidson (politician) Gordon Davidson (politician) Gordon Sinclair Davidson (17 January 1915 – 25 November 2002) was an Australian politician. He was a grazier and church administrator before entering politics. Davidson's family were farmers at Angas Plains in the Strathalbyn area of South Australia. He was educated in the small Angas Plains School, then as a boarder at Scotch College in Adelaide. He worked on the family farm and was elected to the District Council of Strathalbyn, serving there from 1942 to 1950. He was also an elder and lay preacher at the Strathalbyn Presbyterian Church and joined the Liberal and Country League