Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Fred Campbell | |
Office: | Deputy Leader of the Queensland Liberal Party |
Term Start: | 13 August 1976 |
Term End: | 23 December 1980 |
Leader: | William Knox Llew Edwards |
Predecessor: | William Knox |
Successor: | Sam Doumany |
Constituency Am1: | Aspley |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 28 May 1960 |
Term End1: | 29 November 1980 |
Predecessor1: | New seat |
Successor1: | Beryce Nelson |
Birth Date: | 17 January 1911 |
Birth Place: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Death Place: | Queensland, Australia |
Birthname: | Frederick Alexander Campbell |
Nationality: | Australian |
Spouse: | Ellen McConachie (m.1936 d.2008) |
Party: | Liberal Party |
Occupation: | Insurance officer |
Frederick Alexander Campbell (17 January 1911 – 11 September 1995)[1] was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[2]
Campbell was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of Matthew Hale Campbell and his wife Annie Jessie (née Jullyan). He was educated in Brisbane and worked in the family poultry business after he left school.[1] He later was an insurance officer specializing in fire and general insurance.[1]
On 14 May 1936 he married Ellen McConachie (died 2008)[3] and together had a son and two daughters.[2] Campbell died in September 1995 and was cremated at Albany Creek Crematorium.[4]
Campbell, for the Liberal Party, won the new seat of Aspley at the 1960 Queensland state election. He represented the seat for twenty years before retiring at the 1980 state election.[1]
Nicknamed affectionately as "Chooky" by the then Labor opposition, Campbell held several ministerial portfolios whilst in politics including:[2]