{{Short description|Australian accountant and politician}} {{For|the songwriter|Ronnie Mack}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}} '''Sir Ronald William Mack''' (20 May 1904 – 12 February 1968) was an Australian politician.
Mack was born at Warrnambool to wool buyer Frederick David Mack and Elizabeth Edith ''née'' Hatton (both Victorian-born).<ref name=adb>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Geoffrey |last=Serle |authorlink=Geoffrey Serle |title=Sir Ronald William (Ron) Mack (1904–1968) |id2=mack-sir-ronald-william-ron-10973 |year=2000 |volume=15 |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref> He attended Warrnambool High School and qualified as an accountant in 1927.<ref name=adb/> From 1930 he ran his own accountancy firm. On 16 February 1935 he married Helen Isabel Janet Lindsay, ''née'' Nicol (died 1957), a 38-year-old divorcee; they had one son.<ref name=adb/> He later remarried on 20 September 1958 Winifred Helen Crutchfield, ''née'' Campion, a 49-year-old widow and a teacher of commerce.<ref name=adb/> From 1939 to 1940 he was a member of Warrnambool City Council.<ref name=arch>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819154732/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1284 |title=Mack, Sir Ronald William |date=19 August 2012}}</ref> He served in World War II and was twice mentioned in dispatches; he lost his right eye at El Alamein.<ref name=adb/><ref name=arch/> From 1944, he was again an accountant, and he became involved in the Liberal and Country Party.
Mack served one term in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Warrnambool.<ref name=parl>{{Cite Parliament of Victoria Member Profile |name=Sir Ronald William Mack |id=ronald-mack |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref> On 18 June 1955 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a member for Western Province.<ref name=parl/> He served as Minister of Health from 26 July 1961<ref name=adb/><ref name=parl/> to 14 September 1965,<ref name=adb/> He was elected President of the Legislative Council in September 1965,<ref name=parl/> a position he held until his death from cancer in his flat at Hawthorn on 12 February 1968.<ref name=adb/> He was knighted in 1967, Warrnambool's first.<ref name=adb/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-vic-la}} {{s-bef|before=Henry Bailey}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Warrnambool | years=1950–1952}} {{s-aft|after=Malcolm Gladman}} {{s-par|au-vic-lc}} {{s-bef|before=Sir Gordon McArthur}} {{s-ttl|title=President of the Victorian Legislative Council | years=1965–1968}} {{s-aft|after=Raymond Garrett}} {{s-bef|before=Hugh MacLeod}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Western | years=1955–1968 | alongside=<br>David Arnott; Kenneth Gross}} {{s-aft|after=Clive Mitchell}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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