Jim Burrows | |
Constituency Am1: | Port Curtis |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 3 May 1947 |
Term End1: | 1 Jun 1963 |
Predecessor1: | Tommy Williams |
Successor1: | Martin Hanson |
Birth Date: | 12 February 1899 |
Birth Place: | Eidsvold, Queensland, Australia |
Death Place: | Gladstone, Queensland, Australia |
Birthname: | James Burrows |
Nationality: | Australian |
Party: | Labor |
Spouse: | Bertha Maud Wilkinson (m.1940) |
Occupation: | Auditor |
James Burrows (21 December 1886 - 17 August 1970) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]
Burrows was born at Eidsvold, Queensland, the son of Henry Burrows and his wife Laura Christine (née Brandis). He was educated at Gaeta, Mount Perry and Many Peaks state schools and then did an accountancy and Local Government Clerkship correspondence course with Hemingway Robertson Ltd. He did general bushwork before becoming and auditor and registered valuer.[1]
In October 1940 Burrows married Bertha Maud Wilkinson and together had four sons. He died at Gladstone in October 1978.[1]
Burrows, representing the Labor Party, won the seat of Port Curtis at the 1947 Queensland state election. He held it for the next sixteen years before retiring at the 1963 Queensland state election.[1]