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332:(4 February 1864 – 2 December 1950) was an Australian politician. He is notable for having been appointed a cabinet minister by two governments of different political complexions, but resigning from both governments on matters of principle. His first resignation looms largely in history as that came with his political defection, whereas there was no defection with his second resignation.
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October 1932 he resigned, after voting against the bill that ratified the agreement. He remained on the government backbench and ran again as the UAP candidate for Maribyrnong at the general election in 1934, but the seat was naturally a Labor one. He had been able to win it for the UAP in
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He was also acting as prime minister of
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the anti-Labor landslide of 1931, but in 1934 Fenton lost to the Labor candidate,
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of the 1890s. In 1887, he had married
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three times as a liberal from 1897. In 1908 he stood, again unsuccessfully, as a
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and seeking to raise a low-interest loan for
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in an attempt to stimulate Australian industrial production.
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from 1934 to 1936. He was appointed a Companion of the
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