William Forgan Smith (1887-1953): Elected 1915, 1918, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938 Resigned 9 December 1942: see by-election
Later career: Chairman, Sugar Board and Central Sugar Cane Prices Board.
Chancellor, University of Queensland.
Died 23 September 1953
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Premier to 16 September 1942
Chief Secretary to 16 September 1942
Treasurer to 12 April 1938
Minister without Portfolio to 9 December 1942
Leader of the Labor Party to 9 September 1942
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Smith resigned partly through ill-health and partly because he (rightly) believed that the federal uniform tax acts of 1942 "would reduce the States to a condition of penurious dependence on the Federal government." (ADB) At his resignation he was the longest- serving Premier of Queensland.