Minister for Public Works (Victoria)

The Minister for Public Works was a minister within the Executive Council of Victoria, Australia.

Minister for Public Works of Victoria
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Style	The Honourable
Member of	Parliament Executive council
Reports to	Premier
Nominator	Premier
Appointer	Governor on the recommendation of the premier
Term length	At the governor's pleasure
Precursor	Commissioner of Public Works Minister of Public Works
Inaugural holder	Charles Pasley
Formation	28 November 1855
Final holder	Bunna Walsh
Abolished	14 December 1987

Ministers

Order	MP	Party affiliation		Ministerial title	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Charles Pasley MP			Commissioner of Public Works	28 November 1855	11 March 1857	1 year, 103 days	[1]
2	Charles Gavan Duffy MP				11 March 1857	29 April 1857	49 days	[2]
3	George Horne MP				21 December 1858	27 October 1859	310 days	[3]
4	James Francis MP				25 November 1859	3 September 1860	283 days	[4]
5	John Bailey MP				3 September 1860	2 October 1860	29 days
6	Vincent Pyke MP				2 October 1860	26 November 1860	55 days
7	James Johnston MP				26 November 1860	20 February 1861	86 days	[5]
8	James M Grant MP				20 February 1861	14 November 1861	267 days
(7)	James Johnston MP				14 November 1861	27 June 1863	1 year, 225 days	[6]
9	Matthew Hervey MLC				27 June 1863	22 July 1865	2 years, 25 days	[7]
10	William Vale MP				18 July 1866	6 May 1868	1 year, 293 days
11	Michael O'Grady MP				6 May 1868	11 July 1868	66 days	[8]
12	John McCrae MP				25 January 1869	20 September 1869	238 days	[9]
13	Isaac Godfrey Reeves MP				20 September 1869	19 January 1870	121 days	[10]
14	William McLellan MP				19 January 1870	9 April 1870	80 days
15	William Bates MP				9 April 1870	19 June 1871	1 year, 71 days	[11]
(11)	Michael O'Grady MP				19 June 1871	10 June 1872	357 days	[12]
15	Alexander Fraser MLC				14 June 1872	4 May 1874	1 year, 324 days	[13]
16	Robert Stirling Hore Anderson MLC				4 May 1874	7 August 1875	1 year, 95 days	[13][14]
17	James Patterson MP				7 August 1875	20 October 1875	74 days	[15]
18	Joseph Jones MP				20 October 1875	21 May 1877	1 year, 213 days	[16]
(17)	James Patterson MP				21 May 1877	5 March 1880	2 years, 289 days	[17]
19	Thomas Bent MP				5 March 1880	3 August 1880	151 days	[18]
20	George Langridge MP				3 August 1880	9 July 1881	340 days	[19]
21	Charles Young MP				19 August 1881	8 March 1883	1 year, 201 days	[20]
22	Alfred Deakin MP				8 March 1883	13 November 1883	250 days	[21]
(22)	Alfred Deakin MP				23 April 1884	18 February 1886	1 year, 301 days
23	John Nimmo MP				18 February 1886	1 June 1889	3 years, 103 days	[22]
24	David Davies MP				1 June 1889	17 June 1889	16 days
(17)	James Patterson MP				17 June 1889	2 September 1890	1 year, 77 days
25	William Anderson MP				2 September 1890	5 November 1890	64 days
26	James Wheeler MP			Minister of Public Works	5 November 1890	16 February 1892	1 year, 103 days	[23]
27	George Graham MP			Commissioner of Public Works	16 February 1892	23 January 1893	342 days	[24]
28	William Webb MP				23 January 1893	27 September 1894	1 year, 247 days	[25][26]
29	John William Taverner MP				27 September 1894	5 December 1899	5 years, 69 days	[27]
(27)	George Graham MP				5 December 1899	19 November 1900	349 days	[28]
30	William Trenwith MP				19 November 1900	12 February 1901	85 days	[29]
31	William McCulloch MLC				12 February 1901	10 June 1902	1 year, 118 days	[30]
(29)	John William Taverner MP		Reform		10 June 1902	6 February 1903	241 days	[31]
(18)	Thomas Bent MP				6 February 1903	16 February 1904	1 year, 10 days
32	Ewen Hugh Cameron MP				16 February 1904	31 October 1908	4 years, 258 days	[32]
33	Duncan McBryde MLC				31 October 1908	8 January 1909	69 days
34	William Baillieu MLC		Commonwealth Liberal		8 January 1909	27 February 1912	3 years, 50 days	[33]
35	William Edgar MLC				27 February 1912	21 June 1913	1 year, 114 days	[33][34]
36	Frederick Hagelthorn MLC				21 June 1913	9 December 1913	171 days	[34]
37	Adam McLellan MLC		Labor		9 December 1913	22 December 1913	13 days	[35]
(36)	Frederick Hagelthorn MLC		Commonwealth Liberal		22 December 1913	29 November 1917	3 years, 342 days	[36][37]
38	John McWhae MLC		Nationalist		29 November 1917	21 March 1918	112 days	[38]
39	Arthur Robinson MLC				21 March 1918	21 October 1919	1 year, 214 days	[39]
40	Frank Clarke MLC				21 October 1919	7 September 1923	3 years, 321 days
41	George Goudie MLC (CP)				7 September 1923	19 March 1924	194 days
42	Henry Cohen MLC				19 March 1924	18 July 1924	121 days	[39][40]
43	John Percy Jones MLC		Labor		18 July 1924	18 November 1924	123 days	[41]
(41)	George Goudie MLC (CP)		Country		18 November 1924	20 May 1927	2 years, 183 days	[42]
(43)	John Percy Jones MLC		Labor		20 May 1927	22 November 1928	1 year, 186 days	[43]
44	Alfred Chandler MLC		Nationalist	Minister of Public Works	22 November 1928	12 December 1929	1 year, 20 days	[44]
(43)	John Percy Jones MLC		Labor	Commissioner of Public Works	12 December 1929	26 April 1932	2 years, 136 days	[45]
45	Robert Williams MLC				26 April 1932	19 May 1932	23 days
(43)	John Percy Jones MLC (UAP)		United Australia Party		19 May 1932	2 April 1935	2 years, 318 days	[46]
(41)	George Goudie MLC		United Country		2 April 1935	14 September 1943	8 years, 165 days	[47]
46	Jack Holland MP		Labor		14 September 1943	18 September 1943	4 days	[48]
47	John Lienhop MLC (CP)		United Country		18 September 1943	2 October 1945	2 years, 14 days	[49]
48	Likely McBrien MLC (Ind)		Liberal		2 October 1945	21 November 1945	50 days	[50]
49	William Everard MP (Lib)				2 October 1945	21 November 1945	50 days
50	Pat Kennelly MLC		Labor		21 November 1945	20 November 1947	1 year, 364 days	[51]
51	James Kennedy MLC (Lib)		Liberal Country Coalition		20 November 1947	27 June 1950	2 years, 219 days	[52]
52	Percy Byrnes MLC		Country		27 June 1950	28 October 1952	2 years, 123 days	[53]
53	Charles Gartside MLC		Electoral Reform League		28 October 1952	31 October 1952	3 days	[54]
(52)	Percy Byrnes MLC		Country		31 October 1952	17 December 1952	47 days	[55][56]
54	Samuel Merrifield MP		Labor		17 December 1952	7 June 1955	2 years, 172 days	[57]
55	Thomas Maltby MP		Liberal Country Party		7 June 1955	26 July 1961	6 years, 49 days	[58]
56	Horace Petty MP				26 July 1961	27 May 1964	2 years, 306 days
57	Murray Porter MP			Minister of Public Works	27 June 1964	11 June 1970	5 years, 349 days
58	Murray Byrne MLC				11 June 1970	23 August 1972	2 years, 73 days
59	Roberts Dunstan MP		Liberal		23 August 1972	10 August 1978	5 years, 352 days	[59]
60	Rob Maclellan MP				10 August 1978	16 August 1978	6 days
61	Tom Austin MP				16 August 1978	23 December 1980	2 years, 129 days
62	Alan Wood MP				23 December 1980	8 April 1982	1 year, 106 days	[59][60]
63	Jack Simpson MP		Labor		8 April 1982	8 September 1983	1 year, 153 days	[61]
64	Evan Walker MLC				8 September 1983	2 May 1985	1 year, 236 days
65	Bunna Walsh MP			Minister for Public Works	2 May 1985	14 December 1987	2 years, 226 days