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Ben Chifley
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Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (1945 to 1949)
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Ben Chifley was an Australian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Australia, Treasurer of Australia, and Minister for Defence. A member of the Australian Labor Party, he was born in Bathurst in 1885 and died in Canberra in 1951. His occupations also included train driver and head of government. Chifley was a male who spoke English and identified with Catholicism, Protestantism, and Presbyterianism.
He worked in Canberra, where he passed away from a myocardial infarction due to natural causes. Chifley is referenced by 815 other encyclopedia articles.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,795x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 53,919x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 22,014x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,930x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
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Key facts
- Monarch
- George VI
- Governors general
- The Duke of Gloucester Sir William McKell
- Deputy
- Frank Forde Herbert Evatt
- Preceded by
- Frank Forde
- Succeeded by
- Robert Menzies
- Prime minister
- John Curtin Frank Forde Himself
- Born
- Joseph Benedict Chifley , ( 1885-09-22 ) 22 September 1885, Bathurst , Colony of New South Wales
- Died
- 13 June 1951 (1951-06-13) (aged 65), Canberra , Australia
- Party
- Labor
- Other political affiliations
- Industrial Labor (1938–1939)
- Spouse
- Elizabeth McKenzie ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1914 )
- Education
- Limekilns Public School , Patrician Brothers' School, Bathurst
- Occupation
- Engine driver , (New South Wales Railways)
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Early life
1917 general strike
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