# Roy Rawson

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{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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'''Roy Robert Rawson''' (11 May 1898 – 14 June 1971) was an Australian politician.

==Early life==
He was born at [Woods Point](/source/Woods_Point) to gold miner Robert Rawson and Ellen Smith. From the age of fourteen, he was employed in a [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne) warehouse, and in 1916 he campaigned against [military conscription](/source/military_conscription). From 1916 to 1918, he was a wireless operator for the [Royal Australian Navy](/source/Royal_Australian_Navy), and after the war, he managed first a tea room in [Bourke Street](/source/Bourke_Street) and then, from 1922, a bookshop in [Swanston Street](/source/Swanston_Street). In April 1925 he married schoolteacher Florence Elizabeth Mitchell, with whom he had one son, political scientist, Don Rawson. His daughter-in-law for a period was classicist [Beryl Rawson](/source/Beryl_Rawson).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://donaitkin.com/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/people/Don%20Rawson.pdf|title=Donald William Rawson|first=Don|last=Aitkin|author-link=Don Aitkin|access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref>

==Politics==
From 1927 he owned his bookshop in [Exhibition Street](/source/Exhibition_Street), where he also ran the headquarters of the Book Censorship Abolition League (1934&ndash;36) and subsequently the [Australian Council for Civil Liberties](/source/Australian_Council_for_Civil_Liberties). He moved to [Upwey](/source/Upwey%2C_Victoria) in 1951, where he became vice-president of the local [Labor Party](/source/Australian_Labor_Party_(Victorian_Branch)) branch. In 1952, he was elected to the [Victorian Legislative Council](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Council) for [Southern Province](/source/Southern_Province_(Victoria)), and served until his defeat at the [1958 Victorian Legislative Council election](/source/1958_Victorian_Legislative_Council_election). Rawson died at [Hawthorn](/source/Hawthorn%2C_Victoria) in 1971.<ref name=vic>{{cite web
  | last = Parliament of Victoria
  | author-link = Parliament of Victoria
  | title = Rawson, Roy Robert
  | work = re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851
  | publisher = [Parliament of Victoria](/source/Parliament_of_Victoria)
  | date = 2001
  | url = http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1387
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060825025803/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1387
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-date = 25 August 2006
  | access-date = 12 December 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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{{s-bef|before=[William Angliss](/source/William_Angliss)}}
{{s-ttl|title=Member for [Southern](/source/Southern_Province_(Victoria)) | years=1952&ndash;1958 | alongside=[Gilbert Chandler](/source/Gilbert_Chandler)}}
{{s-aft|after=[Raymond Garrett](/source/Raymond_Garrett)}}
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Category:1898 births
Category:1971 deaths
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Category:20th-century Australian politicians
Category:Royal Navy personnel of World War I
Category:Military personnel from Victoria (state)

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