predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place title nationality party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
sam cohen george hannan 26 june 2001 melbourne , victoria greensborough , victoria senator for victoria australian australian labor party 4 december 1920 19 november 1969 1 july 1971 bill brown -lrb- australian politician -rrb-
 20 november 1970 30 june 1978 bill brown unionist
bill brown -lrb- australian politician -rrb-

william walter charles `` bill '' brown -lrb- born 4 december 1920 -- 26 june 2001 -rrb- is a former australian politician .
born in melbourne , he was educated at state schools and then at taylor 's college , after which he became an apprentice cabinet-maker .
he served in the military from 1941 -- 1946 , and was an organiser and victorian secretary of the federated furnishing trades society .
in 1961 , he served as president of the melbourne trades hall council , and as president of the victorian labor party 1965-1968 .
on 19 november 1969 , he was appointed to the australian senate as a labor senator for victoria , filling the casual vacancy caused by the death of sam cohen .
brown 's appointment lasted until the 1970 election , when he was elected in his own right ; his new term did not begin until 1 july 1971 , however , and liberal george hannan served the remainder of cohen 's term .
he was defeated in 1977 , when he was demoted to third position on the labor ticket to make room for gareth evans .
