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McKell retired in May 1953, having had his initial term extended by 14 months by the same Robert Menzies who had decried his appointment.
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However, on 5 September Lang was deposed by his party and replaced by the more moderate William McKell, who became Premier at the May 1941 election and got on well with Wakehurst, extending his term past 1942.
McKell and 1953
Sir William John McKell GCMG ( 26 September 189111 January 1985 ), Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, and was the 12th Governor-General of Australia from 1947 to 1953.
McKell and having
In 1943, having published newspaper articles attacking McKell ( NSW's Premier since 1941 ) and the Prime Minister John Curtin, he was expelled from the ALP and re-started the Australian Labor Party ( Non-Communist ).
McKell and had
For the rest of his life, McKell avoided discussing the matter by saying his father had died young.
The objection was not personal ( George VI had never met McKell ) but centered on his being closely associated with a particular political party, and with a particular state.
The official announcement was made on 31 January 1947, and McKell resigned from parliament and from the ministry on 6 February, but not before participating in the caucus vote to elect his own successor ( 5 February ); he had favoured Bob Heffron, but James McGirr had the numbers.
In a debate on a censure motion on 20 February, Menzies said the fact that McKell was actively engaged in politics when the appointment was announced ( even though he had since vacated the political stage ) was " a grave disqualification " which " strikes at the very foundation of the office of the Governor-Generalship, because that office in Australia should be as far removed from party politics as is the Crown itself in Great Britain ".
This caused considerable controversy in the Labor Party, as it was Labor policy to have nothing to do with knighthoods ( a policy confirmed by the case of Queensland union leader Jack Egerton a generation afterwards ); but there was nothing Labor could do about it, since McKell had severed all connections with the party on assuming office.
He unsuccessfully attempted to gain the Premiership upon the retirement of William McKell in 1947 ( though McKell had hoped that Heffron would succeed him ), and again at the departure of James McGirr in 1952.
McKell and initial
When Menzies succeeded Chifley as Prime Minister in December 1949, his relations with McKell were initially cordial, but they later became firm friends and Menzies even extended his term by 14 months from its initial five years.
McKell and term
Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ) was knighted during his term of office, but all the other governors-general until 1989 were already either peers or knights ; the only Australian peer was Lord Casey ( 1965 – 69 ).
McKell was the only Australian governor-general to be knighted during his term.
McKell and by
He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.
Lang was ousted as NSW Opposition Leader in 1939 and was replaced by William McKell, who became Premier in 1941.
On 22 March 1946, to commemorate his service as Governor a major new road through Sydney's Northern Beaches was named as the " Wakehurst Parkway " by Premier McKell.
A small obelisk unveiled in 1939, adjacent to the railway station and the avenue of tall palms in McKell Park, commemorates the discovery and naming of the Hawkesbury River by Governor Phillip in 1789.
It was unveiled by His Excellence the Governor-General of Australia, William McKell on 12 November 1950.
He was presented with his field marshal's baton at a ceremoney held in the sunroom at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital by the then Governor-General, William McKell.
Tracks 1-4 produced by Kenny Rogers ; tracks 5-10 produced by Brent Maher & Jim McKell for Maher Productions.
Lang was replaced as state leader by William McKell.
In 1947, Prime Minister Ben Chifley named McKell as Governor-General of Australia, initiating a struggle between, on one side, Robert Heffron ( supported by the Party Executive, McKell, many urban members, and many radical members ) and, on the other side, McGirr ( supported mainly by ex-Langite, rural and Catholic members ).
At the 1917 election he was defeated by the official Labor candidate William McKell, but, now Nationalist, Premier Holman appointed him to the then unelected Legislative Council in July 1917.
McKell and Menzies
Many in the Labor Party, though not Chifley, thought that McKell should and would refuse Menzies a double dissolution, but the Governor-General agreed ( with little hesitation ) to provide one.
McKell took the view that it was for the voters, not the Governor-General, to determine whether the Senate or Menzies was right: he saw it as his duty to act on the advice of his Prime Minister.
McKell and who
In 1947, Labor appointed a second Australian Governor-General, William McKell, who was in office as the Labor Premier of New South Wales.
McKell was born in Pambula, New South Wales, the son of a butcher who abandoned his wife and their four children.
On 13 November 1951, McKell accepted a knighthood ( Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ) from King George VI, who personally invested him at Buckingham Palace while McKell was on an official visit to the United Kingdom.
McKell and appointment
McKell kept a dignified silence on the matter of his appointment, rather than conducting a public defence of it.
McKell and .
Sir William McKell was Premier of New South Wales.
Between 1903 and 1909, the McKell Coal and Coke company in Raleigh County, West Virginia, installed of Morgan rack / third-rail track in its mines.
In November 1943, at the official opening of the new Public Library of New South Wales building, William McKell, the New South Wales Premier, announced that the Library Act would be fully proclaimed from 1 January 1944.
During the 1930s McKell became a leader of the opposition within the Labor Party to what was felt to be Lang's dictatorial rule and his electoral failures.
Once McKell took office on 11 March, however, the continuing respect for the Crown and its representative meant that there was no further criticism.
McKell carried out the usual round of his formal duties with dignity, and succeeded in winning over all but the most inflexible anglophiles.
McKell lived in Sydney for another 30 years, becoming considered one of the grand old men of the New South Wales Labor Party, although he never resumed any party or political activity.
His widow, Lady ( Mary ) McKell, died in July 1985.
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