| Honorific Suffix: | AO | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Donald Jack Hopgood | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 5 September 1938 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Prospect, South Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Australian | ||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Flinders University | ||||||||||||||||
| Children: | three | ||||||||||||||||
| Parents: | Jack and Gwen (nee Bessell) Hopgood | ||||||||||||||||
| Dr Don Hopgood | |||||||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 26 July 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End: | 4 September 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor: | Frank Blevins | ||||||||||||||||
| Office1: | Deputy Leader of the South Australian Labor Party | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start1: | July 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End1: | 4 September 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Hugh Hudson | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor1: | Frank Blevins | ||||||||||||||||
| Office3: | Minister of Community Welfare Minister of Family and Community Services | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start3: | 20 April 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End3: | 1 October 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start4: | 04 August 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End4: | 12 August 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office5: | Minister for the Aged | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start5: | 20 April 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End5: | 1 October 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office6: | Minister of Health | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start6: | 20 April 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End6: | 1 October 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Prior Term6: | 4 August 1988 – 12 August 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office7: | Minister of Water Resources | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start7: | 18 December 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End7: | 29 July 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office8: | Chief Secretary of South Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start8: | 16 July 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End8: | 20 April 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office9: | Minister of Emergency Services | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start9: | 16 July 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End9: | 20 April 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office10: | Minister of Lands Minister of Repatriation | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start10: | 10 November 1982 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End10: | 16 July 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office12: | Minister for Environment and Planning | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start12: | 10 November 1982 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End12: | 20 April 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start13: | 24 June 1975 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End13: | 18 September 1979 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office14: | Minister Assisting the Premier | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start14: | 20 September 1973 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End14: | 23 June 1975 | ||||||||||||||||
| Office15: | Minister of Development and Mines | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start15: | 20 September 1973 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End15: | 23 June 1975 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parliament16: | South Australian | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start16: | 17 September 1977 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End16: | 11 December 1993 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor16: | District created | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor16: | District abolished | ||||||||||||||||
| Parliament17: | South Australian | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start17: | 30 May 1970 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End17: | 17 September 1977 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor17: | District created | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor17: | Leslie Drury | ||||||||||||||||
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Donald Jack Hopgood (born 5 September 1938) is a former South Australian politician who was the 5th Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1985 to 1992. Hopgood represented the House of Assembly seats of Mawson from 1970 to 1977 and Baudin from 1977 to 1993 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, and was promoted to the Labor frontbench in 1973.
Donald Jack Hopgood was born on born 5 September 1938 at Prospect, an inner northern suburb of Adelaide. His father worked at Berger Paints. His maternal grandfather worked at Islington Railway Workshops, while his paternal grandfather was a retired typesetter.[1]
Hopgood grew up in Prospect and was a member of the Prospect North Methodist Church Sunday school.[1] He went to Prospect Primary School and Adelaide Boys' High School.[2]
He then trained to be a teacher at Adelaide Teachers' College on Kintore Avenue, Adelaide.[3] Hopgood started learning to play jazz trumpet at age 18, and played in jazz bands at church and university.[4]
Hopgood taught from 1960 at Le Fevre Boys' Technical High School for three years, then moved to Whyalla Technical High School for a year (while still studying), then Westminster School for almost five years. He started teaching science, including physics, but after graduating in arts started teaching modern history as well. He did an honours degree in arts while teaching at Westminster.[5]
He won a three-year scholarship to study for a PhD from Flinders University,[6] so left teaching to do his PhD in 1968. He was still studying for his PhD when he was elected to state parliament, so converted the final year to part-time.[7] His thesis was on history, which was within the School of Social Science at Flinders, titled "A Psephological Examination of the South Australian Labor Party from World War I to the Depression".[8]
Hopgood represented the House of Assembly seats of Mawson from 1970 to 1977 and Baudin from 1977 to 1993 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, and was promoted to the Labor frontbench in 1973.[9]
Hopgood was a lay preacher during his early years as a teacher.[10]
He was moderator of the Synod of South Australia of the Uniting Church in Australia from 1997 to 1999.[11]
Hopgood got engaged in Whyalla in 1963 and married in 1964. His wife moved to Adelaide with him and also taught at Westminster School.[10]
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