Low, David Alan

Personal

Low, David Alan
Birth Date: 5 February 1911 (Yandina, Queensland)
Death Date: 22 October 1974 (Brisbane, Queensland)
Parents: John Anthony Low and Louisa Ann (nee Bury)
Family: Claudia Helen Ritchie on 8 April 1939, 1 daughter
Education: Nambour State School; Yandina Rural and Nambour High schools
Religion: Presbyterian

Career

Farmer; Railway clerk at Nambour, Yandina, Kingaroy and Maryborough

Local Government Service: Chairman, Maroochy Shire Council, 1952 to 1967
Party Positions:
  1. Secretary, Cooroora Branch of the National Party.
  2. Member, Cooroora Electorate Council.
  3. Secretary, Parliamentary Country Party. Aug 1950

Parliamentary Representation

House Party Electorate From To Elected/Departure Reason
Assembly CN Cooroora 3 May 1947 16 Oct 1974

Additional Information

Notes: Interests included fishing, surfing and bowling; Freemason and belonged to the Maroochy Masonic Lodge; Member, Nambour Bowls Club
Sources: Image courtesy of National Library of Australia, Image no: M868454; Courier-Mail, 'Low resigns - no by-election', 17 October 1974; Lack, Clem, Three Decades of Queensland Political History 1929-1960 (Brisbane: Government Printer, 1962); Legge, JS, Who's Who in Australia XXth Edition, (Melbourne: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1971), p. 601
[Last Modified: Wednesday, 09 August 2017]