death_date birth_place title party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
10 march 1979 launceston , tasmania senator for tasmania liberal 6 june 1923 18 may 1974 eric bessell
 11 november 1975 eric bessell
eric bessell

eric james bessell -lrb- 6 june 1923 -- 10 march 1979 -rrb- was an australian politician .
born in launceston , tasmania , he was a pastoralist before serving in the military 1943-1944 .
he served as president of the tasmanian liberal party in 1966 and 1973 .
in 1974 , he was elected to the australian senate as a liberal senator for tasmania .
he was defeated in 1975 after being demoted to sixth place on the ballot paper to make way for real estate agent brian archer and nurse shirley walters .
bessell died in 1979 .
