{{Distinguish|Liberal and Country Party|Liberal and Country League|Country Liberal Party}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{short description|Australian splinter group of United Country Party}} The '''Liberal Country Party''' ('''LCP''') was a splinter group of the United Country Party, the Victorian branch of the Australian Country Party, formed after federal MP John McEwen was expelled from the state branch for accepting a ministry in the Lyons-Page Coalition government in 1937. Following a tumultuous party conference in 1938, another federal MP, Thomas Paterson, led a hundred McEwen supporters to form the LCP, a faction of the party loyal to the federal party.<ref> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=B. J. |last=Costar |title=Paterson, Thomas (1882–1952) |id2=paterson-thomas-7974 |year=1988 |access-date=3 September 2014 }}</ref> The breach had been resolved by 1943.<ref> {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article144118687 |title=Victorian C.P. Amalgamation. |newspaper=The Daily Advertiser |location=Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. |date=10 April 1943 |access-date=3 September 2014 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia }}</ref>
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==Further reading== * {{cite thesis|first=Antony|last=Lamb|title=Of Measures and Men: The Victorian Country Party, 1917 to 1945|type=PhD thesis|publisher=Swinburne University of Technology|year=2009|url=https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/71d1a6d6-47fa-4ea8-8040-4285b6efad4d/1/Antony%20Lamb%20Thesis.pdf}}
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