| 词条 | Oliver John Nilsen |
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| honorific-prefix = | name= Oliver John Nilsen | honorific-suffix= CBE, JP | image= | caption= | nationality=Australian | order=70th Lord Mayor of Melbourne | term_start=1951 | term_end=1952 | deputy = | predecessor=Sir James Stanley Disney | successor= Sir William John Brens | birth_date={{Birth date|1884|8|17|df=yes}} | birth_place=Collingwood, Victoria, Australia | death_date={{Death date and age|1977|10|24|1884|8|17|df=yes}} | death_place=East Melbourne, Australia | spouse= | party= }} Oliver John Nilsen CBE JP (17 August 1884 – 24 October 1977) was an Australian businessman and Lord Mayor of Melbourne. BackgroundBorn in Collingwood in Melbourne, Victoria, Nilsen was educated at Rathdowne Street State School, Carlton and the Working Men's College. On 4 September 1907 Nilsen married Ethel Margaret Williams at the Fitzroy Presbyterian Church. In 1916 he established Oliver J. Nilsen & Co. (later Oliver J. Nilsen (Australia) Ltd), an electrical business, which moved to 45 Bourke Street in 1924. In later life he lived in Kooyong Road, Caulfield, Victoria; and every Christmas he would decorate an enormous tree on his front lawn with electric lights, long before it became the fashion to do so. 3UZOn 6 February 1925 Nilsen was granted the first commercial radio broadcasting license in Victoria for station 3UZ, which the Nilsen family retained until 1985. In 1996 the call sign was changed to Radio Sport 927. PoliticsNilsen was elected to the Melbourne City Council in 1934, representing the Gipps Ward. He sat on the electric-supply committee for thirty years. He was elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne in August 1951 and served until 1952. Nilsen retired from the Melbourne City Council in 1964. Nilsen was made a CBE in 1956, and was also a Justice of the Peace. In 1944 he received the Australian Federation of Commercial Broadcasters' award. DeathNilsen died on 24 October 1977 in East Melbourne, leaving an estate valued at $1,845,530. References
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