| 词条 | Richard Keane |
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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable | name = Richard Keane | honorific-suffix = | image = Senator Richard Keane.jpg | constituency_MP = Bendigo | parliament = Australian | majority = | predecessor = Geoffry Hurry | successor = Eric Harrison | term_start = 12 October 1929 | term_end = 19 December 1931 | office1 = Senator for Victoria | term_start1 = 1 July 1938 | term_end1 = 26 April 1946 | successor1 = Alexander Fraser | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1881|2|14}} | birth_place = Beechworth, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1946|4|26|1881|2|14}} | death_place = Washington, D.C., United States | nationality = Australian | spouse = 1) Ruby Thorne 2) Millicent Dunn | party = Australian Labor Party | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = Railway clerk | profession = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} Richard Valentine Keane (14 February 1881 – 26 April 1946) was an Australian politician. Keane was born in Beechworth, Victoria and, after his police constable father was transferred to Melbourne, was educated at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda. When he was 16 he took a position as a clerk in the Victorian Railways. In 1909 he married Ruby Thorne and they subsequently had a son and two daughters. From 1918 he was an office holder in the Victorian Railways Union, which became part of the Australian Railways Union (ARU) in 1920. He was General Secretary of the ARU from 1925 to 1929. His wife died in 1923 and he married Millicent Dunn in 1940.[1] Political careerKeane was vice-president of the executive of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party in 1928 and its president in 1930 and from 1937 to 1938. In 1925, he stood unsuccessfully for the Australian Senate and the Victorian Legislative Council. In the October 1929 election, he was elected as the member for Bendigo in the Australian House of Representatives, but lost it at the October 1931 election. He was narrowly defeated for Bendigo at the 1934 election, but was elected to the Senate at the 1937 election. He became leader of the government in the Senate in 1943.[1] In October 1941 Keane was appointed Minister for Trade and Customs and Vice-President of the Executive Council in the first Curtin Ministry and was responsible for administering wartime rationing and price controls. In 1946 he travelled to the United States to terminate Australia's Lend-Lease arrangements but died in Washington, D.C., survived by his wife, their daughter and the children of his first marriage.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 {{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Rawson |first=Don |authorlink= |year=2002|id=A140688b|title= Keane, Richard Valentine (1881 - 1946) |accessdate=2007-11-28 }} {{s-start}}{{s-par | au}}{{s-bef | before=Geoffry Hurry}}{{s-ttl | title=Member for Bendigo | years=1929–1931}}{{s-aft | after= Eric Harrison}}{{s-off}}{{s-bef | before= Eric Harrison}}{{s-ttl |title= Minister for Trade and Customs |years=1941 – 1946}}{{s-aft | after= John Dedman}}{{s-bef | before= George McLeay}}{{s-ttl | title= Vice-President of the Executive Council |years=1941 – 1943}}{{s-aft | after=Bill Ashley}}{{s-ppo}}{{s-bef | before=Joe Collings}}{{s-ttl | title=Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate | years=1943–1946}}{{s-aft | after=Bill Ashley}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Keane, Richard Valentine}} 9 : 1881 births|1946 deaths|Members of the Cabinet of Australia|Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia|Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Bendigo|Members of the Australian House of Representatives|Members of the Australian Senate for Victoria|Members of the Australian Senate|20th-century Australian politicians |
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