Clarrie Martin
Major Clarence Edward Martin was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1930 until 1932 and from 1939 until his death in 1953. He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party , the Industrial Labor Party and the Australian Labor Party . He was the AttorneyGeneral of New South Wales from 1941 until 1953 and also held the position of Minister for Transport for six months prior to his death.
Martin was born in Ballarat, Victoria and was the son of a miner. He was educated at state schools in Broken Hill, New South Wales and was orphaned at an early age. He initially worked in the Broken Hill mines but continued his education privately. At agehe moved to Sydney, underwent teacher training and taught in state schools in rural NSW while continuing parttime studies in economics at the University of Sydney. During the period he was out of parliament he studied law at the university. Martin graduated and was called to the bar in 1936, in 1952 he was appointed a Queens Counsel . He was the founder of the NSW branch of the Fabian Society and a trustee of the New South Wales State Library. He served in the Second Australian Imperial Force in New Guinea and the Middle East foryears and reached the rank of Major.
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