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Francis Matthew John Baker
Australian politician

Francis Matthew John Baker

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Australian politician
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Francis Matthew John Baker
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Bundaberg
Place of death
South Brisbane
Age
36 years
Family
Father:
Francis Patrick Baker
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Biography

Francis (Frank) Matthew John Baker (1903 – 28 March 1939) was an Australian politician and vice-president of the State Service Union.
Baker was born in Bundaberg, Queensland. A member of the Federal Labor Party, he unsuccessfully ran for office for the Queensland seat of Oxley in the 1928 federal election, being beaten by James Bayley of the Nationalist Party. He made a second run for the seat in 1929, and narrowly lost to Bayley.
In the 1931 election he contested Oxley for a third time, this time successfully. He was one of only two Labor challengers to defeat a Coalition incumbent in an election that saw the two Labor factions cut down to 18 seats between them. Following the abolition of Oxley, Baker successfully contested Griffith, essentially a reconfigured version of Oxley, in 1934 and won. He was reelected in 1937. He remained in parliament until 1939 when he was killed in a motor accident. His death resulted in the 1939 Griffith by-election.
In 1936, Baker led a proposal for Australian parliamentary proceedings to be broadcast on radio.
Following his death, the Australian prime minister, Joseph Lyons, commented that "had he lived, I am sure he would have advanced to an important place in his party." Baker studied law while a member of parliament and had almost completed his course when he died.
Baker's father, Francis (Frank) Patrick Baker, was elected to the seat of Maranoa in 1940. This is the only case in which a father was elected to the Australian federal parliament after his son.
Baker is buried in South Brisbane Cemetery.

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