Alexander Armstrong (politician)

Alexander Ewan Armstrong (15 June 1916 – 27 April 1985) was an Australian politician.

For other people named Alexander Armstrong, see Alexander Armstrong (disambiguation).

Alexander Armstrong
In office
23 April 1952 – 25 February 1969
Personal details
Born
Alexander Ewan Armstrong

(1916-06-15)15 June 1916
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died27 April 1985(1985-04-27) (aged 68)
Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLiberal Party
Other political
affiliations		Country Party
Spouse(s)Marjorie Alma Goodhew
Margaret Rose Cleary
ParentsGeorge Armstrong
Florence Edith Ewan
Alma materScots College
OccupationGrazier

Armstrong was born in Sydney to doctor George Armstrong and Florence Edith Ewan. He attended Scots College and became a grazier, working first on the family's Albury property and then at Winderadeen and Collector. On 10 February 1945, he married Marjorie Alma Goodhew and they had two daughters. He later divorced, and remarried Margaret Rose Cleary in July 1963.

A member of the Liberal Party, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1952. In 1956, he defected to the Country Party.[1] In 1968 the Supreme Court found that Armstrong had threatened to have a business associate killed,[2] and on 25 February 1969 the Legislative Council passed a resolution that he was guilty of conduct unworthy of a member of the council and that he be expelled.[3][4] Armstrong unsuccessfully challenged his expulsion in the Court of Appeal.[5][4]

He died at Alice Springs in 1985.[1]

References
  1. "Mr Alexander Ewan Armstrong (1916-1985)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  2. Barton v Armstrong, unreported Street J 19 December 1968, reproduced in Barton v Armstrong, Appeal Book Volume 9 (PDF), p. 3097 – via British and Irish Legal Information Institute
  3. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). New South Wales: Legislative Council. 25 February 1969.
  4. Twomey, Anne (2004). The Constitution of New South Wales. Federation Press. pp. 455–6. ISBN 9781862875166. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  5. Armstrong v Budd (1969) 71 SRNSW 386 Court of Appeal (NSW).
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