The following is a list of members of the Australian Parliament who died in office.
Senate Member Party Date of death Age at death Cause Frederick Thomas Sargood Free Trade Victoria 2 January 1903Otago Daily Times, 19 January 1903. Retrieved 6 June 2016 68 William Russell Labor South Australia 28 June 1912 69 Heart disease Gregor McGregor Labor South Australia 13 August 1914 65 Heart disease Robert Guthrie Nationalist South Australia 20 January 1921 63 Struck by a tram John Adamson Nationalist Queensland 2 May 1922 65 Fell in front of a train in possible suicide Thomas Bakhap Nationalist Tasmania 18 August 1923 56 Edward Millen Nationalist New South Wales 14 September 1923 62 Chronic nephritis Stephen Barker Labor Victoria 21 June 1924 77-78 Allan McDougall Labor New South Wales 14 October 1924 67 Diabetes Jack Power Labor New South Wales 13 January 1925 41 Edward Russell Nationalist Victoria 18 July 1925 46 Brain disease James O'Loghlin Labor South Australia 4 December 1925 73 Tuberculosis Charles McHugh Labor South Australia 24 July 1927 40 Pneumonia John Grant Labor New South Wales 19 May 1928 70-71 Thomas Givens Nationalist Queensland 19 June 1928 64 Heart disease David Andrew Country Victoria 19 November 1928 62 John Chapman Country South Australia 14 March 1931 51 Pneumonia Harold Elliott Nationalist Victoria 23 March 1931 52 Suicide caused by post-traumatic stress disorder James Ogden United Australia Tasmania 5 February 1932 63 John Newlands United Australia South Australia 20 May 1932 67 Walter Kingsmill United Australia Western Australia 15 January 1935 70 Coronary occlusion Lionel Courtenay United Australia New South Wales 11 July 1935 55 William Carroll Country Western Australia 30 May 1936 64 John MacDonald Labor Queensland 17 August 1937 57 Heart disease John Barnes Labor Victoria 31 January 1938 69 Cancer Bertie Johnston Country Western Australia 6 September 1942 62 Drowning James Cunningham Labor Western Australia 4 July 1943 63 Richard Keane Labor Victoria 26 April 1946 65 Heart disease Richard Nash Labor Western Australia 12 December 1951 61 Heart attack Edmund Piesse Country Western Australia 25 August 1952 62 Suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning Jack Chamberlain Liberal Tasmania 16 January 1953 68 George McLeay Liberal South Australia 14 September 1955 63 Ischemic heart disease Jack Devlin Labor Victoria 26 May 1957 57 Bill Ashley Labor New South Wales 27 June 1958 76 Stroke Harrie Seward Country Western Australia 23 July 1958 74 Rex Pearson Liberal South Australia 11 September 1961 56 Albert Reid Country Queensland 22 May 1962 76 Heart attack Max Poulter Labor Queensland 2 September 1962 49 Seddon Vincent Liberal Western Australia 9 November 1964 56 Harrie Wade Country Victoria 18 November 1964 59 Heart attack Shane Paltridge Liberal Western Australia 21 January 1966 56 Cancer Bob Sherrington Liberal Queensland 16 March 1966 64 Charles Sandford Labor Victoria 22 October 1966 71 Clive Hannaford Independent South Australia 24 October 1967 64 Keith Laught Liberal South Australia 13 May 1969 61 Sam Cohen Labor Victoria 7 October 1969 50 Heart attack Colin McKellar Country New South Wales 13 April 1970 66 Coronary heart disease James Ormonde Labor New South Wales 30 November 1970 67 Bertie Milliner Labor Queensland 30 June 1975 63 Heart attack Ivor Greenwood Liberal Victoria 13 October 1976 49 Heart attack John Knight Liberal Australian Capital Territory 4 March 1981 37 Heart attack Alan Missen Liberal Victoria 30 March 1986 60 Heart attack Olive Zakharov Labor Victoria 6 March 1995 65 Struck by a car John Panizza Liberal Western Australia 31 January 1997 65 Jeannie Ferris Liberal South Australia 1 April 2007 66 Ovarian cancerKelton, Greg. "Jeannie Ferris dies", The Advertiser, 2 April 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-02. Judith Adams Liberal Western Australia 31 March 2012 68 Breast cancerLiberal Senator Judith Adams loses cancer battle – The Australian online. Published 31 March 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2012. Alex Gallacher Labor South Australia 29 August 2021 67 Lung cancer Kimberley Kitching Labor Victoria 10 March 2022 52 Heart attack (suspected) Jim Molan Liberal New South Wales 16 January 2023 72 Cancer Linda White Labor Victoria 29 February 2024 63-64 Cancer
House of Representatives Member Party Date of death Age at death Cause William Henry Groom Protectionist Queensland 8 August 1901 68 Bronchial catarrh, heart failure Frederick William Piesse Free Trade Tasmania 6 March 1902 53 Edward Braddon Free Trade Tasmania 2 February 1904 74 Charles Kingston Protectionist South Australia 11 May 1908 57 Stroke Frederick Holder Independent South Australia 23 July 1909 59 Cerebral hemorrhageGavin Souter, Acts of Parliament, 1988, p. 115 James Hutchison Labor South Australia 6 December 1909 50 Complications from kidney surgery Henry Beard Labor Victoria 18 December 1910 45-46 Complications from a medical operation George Edwards Liberal New South Wales 4 February 1911 56 Gas explosion Lee Batchelor Labor South Australia 8 October 1911 46 Heart attack Charlie Frazer Labor Western Australia 25 November 1913 33 Pneumonia Ernest Roberts Labor South Australia 2 December 1913 45 Heart disease John Arthur Labor Victoria 9 December 1914 39 Kidney disease Edward Jolley Labor Victoria 1 January 1915 40-41 Cerebral hemorrhage Robert Howe Labor New South Wales 2 April 1915 53-54 Charles Howroyd Nationalist Tasmania 10 May 1917 50 Charles Carty Salmon Nationalist Victoria 15 September 1917 57 John Forrest Nationalist Western Australia 2 September 1918 71 Skin cancer James Chester Manifold Nationalist Victoria 30 October 1918 51 Pneumonia Albert Palmer Nationalist Victoria 14 August 1919 59-60 Pneumonia Jim Page Labor Queensland 3 June 1921 59-60 T.J. Ryan Labor New South Wales 1 August 1921 45 Pneumonia Frank Tudor Labor Victoria 10 January 1922 55 Austin Chapman Nationalist New South Wales 12 January 1926 61 Cerebro-vascular disease Herbert Pratten Nationalist New South Wales 7 May 1928 63 Cerebral hemorrhage Edward Corser Nationalist Queensland 31 July 1928 75-76 William Lambert Labor New South Wales 6 September 1928 47 Heart attack William McWilliams Independent Tasmania 22 October 1929 73 Angina pectoris John West Labor New South Wales 5 February 1931 79 Percy Stewart Independent Victoria 15 October 1931 45 Pneumonia John Clasby United Australia New South Wales 15 January 1932 40-41 William Holman United Australia New South Wales 5 June 1934 62 Charles McGrath United Australia Victoria 21 July 1934 61 David Watkins Labor New South Wales 8 April 1935 69 Cancer George Maxwell United Australia Victoria 25 June 1935 76 Darby Riordan Labor Queensland 15 October 1936 50 Pneumonia Littleton Groom United Australia Queensland 6 November 1936 69 Cerebro-vascular disease Charles Hawker United Australia South Australia 25 October 1938 44 Plane crash Francis Baker Labor Queensland 28 March 1939 35-36 Motor accident Joseph Lyons United Australia Tasmania 7 April 1939 59 Heart attack Geoffrey Street United Australia Victoria 13 August 1940 46 Plane crashTink, Andrew "Air Disaster Canberra: the plane crash that destroyed a government ". NewSouth Books. 1 April 2013, , Retrieved 17 April 2013 via boffinsbookshop.com.au James Fairbairn United Australia Victoria 13 August 1940 43 Plane crash Henry Gullett United Australia Victoria 13 August 1940 62 Plane crash Albert Green Labor Western Australia 2 October 1940 70 Henry Gregory Country Western Australia 15 November 1940 80 John Price United Australia South Australia 23 April 1941 59 John Curtin Labor Western Australia 5 July 1945 60 Heart disease Ben Chifley Labor New South Wales 13 June 1951 65 Heart attack Jim Eggins Country New South Wales 28 January 1952 53 Cerebral disease Rupert Ryan Liberal Victoria 25 August 1952 68 Heart failure Bert Lazzarini Labor New South Wales 1 October 1952 68 Cerebral hemorrhage Billy Hughes Liberal New South Wales 28 October 1952 90 Sol Rosevear Labor New South Wales 21 March 1953 61 Coronary occlusion Allan McDonald Liberal Victoria 10 June 1953 64 Cancer Dan Mulcahy Labor New South Wales 21 July 1953 71 Thomas Treloar Liberal New South Wales 15 November 1953 61 Tom Sheehan Labor New South Wales 26 March 1955 63 Billy Davies Labor New South Wales 17 February 1956 71-72 Archie Cameron Liberal South Australia 9 August 1956 61 Heart attack Larry Anthony Country New South Wales 12 July 1957 60 Cerebrovascular disease Harry Bruce Labor Queensland 11 October 1958 74 Heart attack Percy Clarey Labor Victoria 17 May 1960 70 Pneumonia Frank Timson Liberal Victoria 16 October 1960 51 Heart attack Alan Bird Labor Victoria 21 July 1962 55 Edgar Russell Labor South Australia 31 March 1963 72 Eddie Ward Labor New South Wales 31 July 1963 64 Heart attack Athol Townley Liberal Tasmania 24 December 1963 58 George Shaw Country Queensland 9 January 1966 58 Cerebral hemorrhage John Cockle Liberal New South Wales 3 August 1966 57 Heart attack George Gray Country Queensland 2 August 1967 63 Pulmonary edema Harold Holt Liberal Victoria 17 December 1967 59 Disappeared. Presumed drowned Jim Fraser Labor Australian Capital Territory 1 April 1970 62 Cancer Wilfrid Kent Hughes Liberal Victoria 30 July 1970________ "Sir W Kent Hughes", The Times, London, 1 August 1970, p 14 75 Rex Connor Labor New South Wales 22 August 1977 70 Coronary occlusion Frank Stewart Labor New South Wales 16 April 1979 56 Heart attack Eric Robinson Liberal Queensland 7 January 1981 51 Heart attack Greg Wilton Labor Victoria 14 June 2000 44 Suicide Peter Nugent Liberal Victoria 24 April 2001Kelly, Fran: Peter Nugent Dies , The 7.30 Report (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 24 April 2001. 63 Heart attack Don Randall Liberal Western Australia 21 July 2015 62 Heart attack Peta Murphy Labor Victoria 4 December 2023 50 Breast Cancer
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