Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Geoff Chisholm | |
Constituency Am: | Braddon |
Assembly: | Tasmanian House of |
Term Start: | 2 May 1964 |
Term End: | 28 July 1979 |
Birth Date: | 1929 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Smithton, Tasmania, Australia |
Death Place: | Devonport, Tasmania, Australia |
Birthname: | Geoffrey Donald Chisholm |
Party: | Labor Party |
Geoffrey Donald Chisholm (8 September 1929 – 13 January 2006) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Smithton, Tasmania. In 1964, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Braddon. He was Chair of Committees from 1972 to 1974 and a minister from 1974 until his retirement in 1979. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1992. His son-in-law, Michael Polley, is also a state Labor politician.[1]
Chisholm died in his sleep, aged 76, at his home in Devonport on 13 January 2006.[2]