List of members of the Australian Parliament who died in office

The following is a list of members of the Australian Parliament who died in office.

Senate

Member	Party		State	Date of death	Age at death	Cause
Frederick Thomas Sargood		Free Trade	Victoria	2 January 1903[1]	68
William Russell		Labor	South Australia	28 June 1912	69	Heart disease[2]
Gregor McGregor		Labor	South Australia	13 August 1914	65	Heart disease[3]
Robert Guthrie		Nationalist	South Australia	20 January 1921	63	Struck by a tram[4]
John Adamson		Nationalist	Queensland	2 May 1922	65	Fell in front of a train in possible suicide[5]
Thomas Bakhap		Nationalist	Tasmania	18 August 1923	56
Edward Millen		Nationalist	New South Wales	14 September 1923	62	Chronic nephritis[6]
Stephen Barker		Labor	Victoria	21 June 1924[7]	77-78
Allan McDougall		Labor	New South Wales	14 October 1924	67	Diabetes[8]
Jack Power		Labor	New South Wales	13 January 1925[9]	41
Edward Russell		Nationalist	Victoria	18 July 1925	46	Brain disease[10]
James O'Loghlin		Labor	South Australia	4 December 1925	73	Tuberculosis[11]
Charles McHugh		Labor	South Australia	24 July 1927	40	Pneumonia[12]
John Grant		Labor	New South Wales	19 May 1928[13]	70-71
Thomas Givens		Nationalist	Queensland	19 June 1928	64	Heart disease[14]
David Andrew		Country	Victoria	19 November 1928	62
John Chapman		Labor	South Australia	14 March 1931	51
Harold Elliott		Nationalist	Victoria	23 March 1931	52	Suicide caused by post-traumatic stress disorder[15]
James Ogden		United Australia	Tasmania	5 February 1932[16]	63
John Newlands		United Australia	South Australia	20 May 1932[17]	67
Walter Kingsmill		United Australia	Western Australia	15 January 1935	70	Coronary occlusion[18]
Lionel Courtenay		United Australia	New South Wales	11 July 1935[19]	55
William Carroll		Country	Western Australia	30 May 1936[20]	64
John MacDonald		Labor	Queensland	17 August 1937	57	Heart disease[21]
John Barnes		Labor	Victoria	31 January 1938	69	Cancer
Bertie Johnston		Country	Western Australia	6 September 1942	62	Drowning[22]
James Cunningham		Labor	Western Australia	4 July 1943[23]	63
Richard Keane		Labor	Victoria	26 April 1946	65	Heart disease[24]
Richard Nash		Labor	Western Australia	12 December 1951	61	Heart attack[25]
Edmund Piesse		Country	Western Australia	25 August 1952	62	Suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning[26]
Jack Chamberlain		Liberal	Tasmania	16 January 1953[27]	68
George McLeay		Liberal	South Australia	14 September 1955	63	Ischemic heart disease[28]
Jack Devlin		Labor	Victoria	26 May 1957[29]	57
Bill Ashley		Labor	New South Wales	27 June 1958	76	Stroke[30]
Harrie Seward		Country	Western Australia	23 July 1958[31]	74
Rex Pearson		Liberal	South Australia	11 September 1961	56
Albert Reid		Country	Queensland	22 May 1962	76	Heart attack[32]
Max Poulter		Labor	Queensland	2 September 1962[33]	49
Seddon Vincent		Liberal	Western Australia	9 November 1964	56
Harrie Wade		Country	Victoria	18 November 1964	59	Heart attack[34]
Shane Paltridge		Liberal	Western Australia	21 January 1966	56	Cancer[35]
Bob Sherrington		Liberal	Queensland	16 March 1966	64
Charles Sandford		Labor	Victoria	22 October 1966	71
Clive Hannaford		Independent	South Australia	24 October 1967[36]	64
Keith Laught		Liberal	South Australia	13 May 1969	61
Sam Cohen		Labor	Victoria	7 October 1969	50	Heart attack
Colin McKellar		Country	New South Wales	13 April 1970	66	Coronary heart disease
James Ormonde		Labor	New South Wales	30 November 1970	67
Bertie Milliner		Labor	Queensland	30 June 1975	63	Heart attack
Ivor Greenwood		Liberal	Victoria	13 October 1976	49	Heart attack
John Knight		Liberal	Australian Capital Territory	4 March 1981	37	Heart attack
Alan Missen		Liberal	Victoria	30 March 1986	60	Heart attack[37]
Olive Zakharov		Labor	Victoria	6 March 1995[38]	65	Struck by a car
John Panizza		Liberal	Western Australia	31 January 1997	65
Jeannie Ferris		Liberal	South Australia	1 April 2007	66	Ovarian cancer[39]
Judith Adams		Liberal	Western Australia	31 March 2012	68	Breast cancer[40]
Alex Gallacher		Labor	South Australia	29 August 2021	67	Lung cancer[41]
Kimberley Kitching		Labor	Victoria	10 March 2022[42]	52	Heart attack (suspected)
Jim Molan		Liberal	New South Wales	16 January 2023	72	Cancer[43]
Linda White		Labor	Victoria	29 February 2024	63-64	Cancer[44]

House of Representatives

Member	Party		State/Division	Date of death	Age at death	Cause
William Henry Groom		Protectionist	Queensland (Darling Downs)	8 August 1901	68	Bronchial catarrh, heart failure
Frederick William Piesse		Free Trade	Tasmania (Tasmania)	6 March 1902	53
Edward Braddon		Free Trade	Tasmania (Wilmot)	2 February 1904	74
Charles Kingston		Protectionist	South Australia (Adelaide)	11 May 1908	57	Stroke[45]
Frederick Holder		Independent	South Australia (Wakefield)	23 July 1909	59	Cerebral hemorrhage[46]
James Hutchison		Labor	South Australia (Hindmarsh)	6 December 1909	50	Complications from kidney surgery[47]
Henry Beard		Labor	Victoria (Batman)	18 December 1910[48]	45-46	Complications from a medical operation
George Edwards		Liberal	New South Wales (North Sydney)	4 February 1911	56	Gas explosion[49]
Lee Batchelor		Labor	South Australia (Boothby)	8 October 1911	46	Heart attack[50]
Charlie Frazer		Labor	Western Australia (Kalgoorlie)	25 November 1913	33	Pneumonia[51]
Ernest Roberts		Labor	South Australia (Adelaide)	2 December 1913	45	Heart disease
John Arthur		Labor	Victoria (Bendigo)	9 December 1914	39	Kidney disease
Edward Jolley		Labor	Victoria (Grampians)	1 January 1915	40-41	Cerebral hemorrhage[52]
Robert Howe		Labor	New South Wales (Dalley)	2 April 1915[53]	53-54
Charles Howroyd		Labor	Tasmania (Darwin)	10 May 1917[54]	50
Charles Carty Salmon		Nataionalist	Victoria (Grampians)	15 September 1917	57
John Forrest		Nationalist	Western Australia (Swan)	2 September 1918	71	Skin cancer[55]
James Chester Manifold		Nationalist	Victoria (Corangamite)	30 October 1918	51	Pneumonia
Albert Palmer		Nationalist	Victoria (Echuca)	14 August 1919	59-60	Pneumonia[56]
Jim Page		Labor	Queensland (Maranoa)	3 June 1921[57]	59-60
T.J. Ryan		Labor	New South Wales (West Sydney)	1 August 1921	45	Pneumonia
Frank Tudor		Labor	Victoria (Yarra)	10 January 1922[58]	55
Austin Chapman		Nationalist	New South Wales (Eden-Monaro)	12 January 1926	61	Cerebro-vascular disease
Herbert Pratten		Nationalist	New South Wales (Parramatta)	7 May 1928	63	Cerebral hemorrhage
Edward Corser		Nationalist	Queensland (Wide Bay)	31 July 1928[59]	75-76
William Lambert		Labor	New South Wales (West Sydney)	6 September 1928	47	Heart attack[60]
William McWilliams		Independent	Tasmania (Franklin)	22 October 1929	73	Angina pectoris
John West		Labor	New South Wales (East Sydney)	5 February 1931	79
Percy Stewart		Independent	Victoria (Wimmera)	15 October 1931	45	Pneumonia[61]
John Clasby		United Australia	New South Wales (East Sydney)	15 January 1932	40-41
William Holman		United Australia	New South Wales (Martin)	5 June 1934	62
Charles McGrath		United Australia	Victoria (Ballaarat)	21 July 1934	61
David Watkins		Labor	New South Wales (Newcastle)	8 April 1935	69	Cancer[62]
George Maxwell		United Australia	Victoria (Fawkner)	25 June 1935	76
Darby Riordan		Labor	Queensland (Kennedy)	15 October 1936	50	Pneumonia[63]
Littleton Groom		United Australia	Queensland (Darling Downs)	6 November 1936	69	Cerebro-vascular disease
Charles Hawker		United Australia	South Australia (Wakefield)	25 October 1938	44	Plane crash[64]
Francis Baker		Labor	Queensland (Griffith)	28 March 1939	35-36	Motor accident[65]
Joseph Lyons		United Australia	Tasmania (Wilmot)	7 April 1939	59	Heart attack[66]
Geoffrey Street		United Australia	Victoria (Corangamite)	13 August 1940	46	Plane crash[67]
James Fairbairn		United Australia	Victoria (Flinders)	13 August 1940	43	Plane crash[67]
Henry Gullett		United Australia	Victoria (Henty)	13 August 1940	62	Plane crash[67]
Albert Green		Labor	Western Australia (Kalgoorlie)	2 October 1940	70
Henry Gregory		Country	Western Australia (Swan)	15 November 1940[68]	80
John Price		United Australia	South Australia (Boothby)	23 April 1941[69]	59
John Curtin		Labor	Western Australia (Fremantle)	5 July 1945	60	Heart disease[70]
Ben Chifley		Labor	New South Wales (Macquarie)	13 June 1951	65	Heart attack[71]
Jim Eggins		Country	New South Wales (Lyne)	28 January 1952	53	Cerebral disease[72]
Rupert Ryan		Liberal	Victoria (Flinders)	25 August 1952	68	Heart failure
Bert Lazzarini		Labor	New South Wales (Werriwa)	1 October 1952	68	Cerebral hemorrhage
Billy Hughes		Liberal	New South Wales (Bradfield)	28 October 1952[73]	90
Sol Rosevear		Labor	New South Wales (Dalley)	21 March 1953	61	Coronary occlusion
Allan McDonald		Liberal	Victoria (Corangamite)	10 June 1953	64	Cancer
Dan Mulcahy		Labor	New South Wales (Lang)	21 July 1953[74]	71
Thomas Treloar		Liberal	New South Wales (Gwydir)	15 November 1953[75]	61
Tom Sheehan		Labor	New South Wales (Cook)	26 March 1955	63
Billy Davies		Labor	New South Wales (Cunningham)	17 February 1956	71-72
Archie Cameron		Liberal	South Australia (Barker)	9 August 1956	61	Heart attack[76]
Larry Anthony		Country	New South Wales (Richmond)	12 July 1957	60	Cerebrovascular disease[77]
Harry Bruce		Labor	Queensland (Leichhardt)	11 October 1958	74	Heart attack[78]
Percy Clarey		Labor	Victoria (Bendigo)	17 May 1960	70	Pneumonia[79]
Frank Timson		Liberal	Victoria (Higinbotham)	16 October 1960[80]	51
Alan Bird		Labor	Victoria (Batman)	21 July 1962	55
Edgar Russell		Labor	South Australia (Grey)	31 March 1963	72
Eddie Ward		Labor	New South Wales (East Sydney)	31 July 1963	64	Heart attack[81]
Athol Townley		Liberal	Tasmania (Denison)	24 December 1963[82]	58
George Shaw		Country	Queensland (Dawson)	9 January 1966	58	Cerebral hemorrhage[83]
John Cockle		Liberal	New South Wales (Warringah)	3 August 1966	57	Heart attack[84]
George Gray		Country	Queensland (Capricornia)	2 August 1967	63	Pulmonary edema
Harold Holt		Liberal	Victoria (Higgins)	17 December 1967	59	Disappeared. Presumed drowned[85]
Jim Fraser		Labor	Australian Capital Territory (Australian Capital Territory)	1 April 1970	62	Cancer
Wilfrid Kent Hughes		Liberal	Victoria (Chisholm)	30 July 1970[86]	75
Rex Connor		Labor	New South Wales (Cunningham)	22 August 1977	70	Coronary occlusion
Frank Stewart		Labor	New South Wales (Grayndler)	16 April 1979	56	Heart attack
Eric Robinson		Liberal	Queensland (McPherson)	7 January 1981	51	Heart attack[87]
Greg Wilton		Labor	Victoria (Isaacs)	14 June 2000	44	Suicide[88]
Peter Nugent		Liberal	Victoria (Aston)	24 April 2001[89]	63	Heart attack
Don Randall		Liberal	Western Australia (Canning)	21 July 2015	62	Heart attack[90]
Peta Murphy		Labor	Victoria (Dunkley)	4 December 2023	50	Breast Cancer[91]