monarch death_date children constituency_mp birth_date term_end death_place order term_start spouse image name caption deputy predecessor parliament birth_place party office governor successor premier article_title
elizabeth ii 27 july 1978 maylean june scott jessie cordia oam -lrb- 1919 -- 2006 -rrb- botany maroubra 10 september 1890 30 22 may 1950 23 january 1968 april 1964 31 may 1960 28 october 1959 kirribilli , new south wales , australia 30th premier of new south wales election : 1962 23 25 october 1930 17 june 1950 october 1959 8 june 1944 23 february 1953 jessie bjornstad -lrb- m. 1917 -- 1977 -rrb- robert heffron 1960.jpg bob heffron heffron as premier in 1960 . jack renshaw joseph district cahill clive evatt joseph cahill thomas mutch new new south wales new south wales thames , colony of new zealand new party australian labor party zealand socialist party victorian socialist party industrial labor minister wales for education 5th deputy premier of new south sir eric woodward jack haigh renshaw ernest wetherell jack renshaw district abolished bill william mckell james mcgirr joseph cahill himself joseph cahill bob heffron

bob heffron

robert james `` bob '' heffron -lrb- 10 september 189027 july 1978 -rrb- , also known as r. j. heffron , was a long-serving new south wales politician , union organiser and australian labor party premier of new south wales from 1959 to 1964 .
born in new zealand , heffron became involved in various socialist and labor movements in new zealand and later australia before joining the australian labor party .
being a prominent unionist organiser , having been gaoled at one stage for `` conspiracy to strike action '' , he was eventually elected to the parliament of new south wales for botany in 1930 .
however his disputes with party leader jack lang led to his expulsion from the alp in 1936 and heffron formed his own party from disgruntled labor mps known as the industrial labor party .
the success of his party enabled his readmission to the party and his prominence in a post-lang nsw branch which won office in 1941 .
heffron served as minister of the crown in the cabinets of william mckell , james mcgirr and joseph cahill , most notably as minister for education from 1944 to 1960 and as deputy premier .
in his significant tenure as minister for education heffron oversaw massive expansion of the state 's public schools and the development of higher education services including the establishment of the new south wales university of technology -lrb- now the university of new south wales -rrb- .
rising to become premier in 1959 , he spearheaded a final attempt to abolish the new south wales legislative council via referendum in 1961 , which ended in failure .
serving as premier until 1964 , heffron was a member of the new south wales legislative assembly for 37 years until his retirement on 23 january 1968 .
