Crawford Vaughan
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Crawford Vaughan (1874 – 1947), was Premier of South Australia between April 3 1915 and July 14 1917.
Vaughan unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in the Australian House of Representatives in 1901, and for the Australian Senate in 1903. He then turned to state politics, and entered the South Australian parliament by winning the seat of Torrens in 1905, representing the United Labor Party. He held this seat until 1915, when he became the member for Sturt. He became Treasurer of South Australia in 1910 in the government of Premier John Verran. When Verran resigned the leadership of the party in 1913, Vaughan was elected to the post. The Labour Party successfully campaigned in the next election, ousting the Commonwealth Liberal Party government, and Vaughan became Premier. He resigned from the Labour Party in 1916 over his support for conscription, and was a founding member of the National Labour Party. He remained as premier until 1917, when his government was defeated.
He married Millicent Preston-Stanley in 1934.
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