predecessor successor religion birth_place assembly title nationality term_end party birth_date term_start spouse birthname article_title constituency_am name occupation
new seat brian lindsay roman catholic roma , queensland queensland legislative senator for queensland australian 30 june 1996 7 december 1974 australian labor party 16 august 1932 1 july 1981 27 may 1972 rita june freda turner -lrb- m. 1956 -rrb- norman francis jones gerry jones
 everton gerry jones building contractor , research officer
gerry jones

norman francis -lrb- gerry -rrb- jones -lrb- born 16 august 1932 -rrb- is a former australian politician .
born at roma , queensland , he was a research assistant before becoming state organiser of the queensland labor party 1967-1972 .
he was elected to the legislative assembly of queensland as the member for everton at the 1972 state election , but was defeated in the landslide labor loss of 1974 .
he was a labor party executive officer 1976-1977 and state secretary 1977-1980 .
in 1980 , he was elected to the australian senate as a labor senator for queensland .
he remained in the senate until his retirement in 1996 .
