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Wilfred Mibus

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Wilfred Mibus
Minister for Water Supply and Mines
In office
7 June 1955 – 18 April 1964
PremierHenry Bolte
Preceded byClive Stoneham (Water Supply)
George Tilley (Mines)
Succeeded byJim Balfour
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Lowan
In office
4 November 1944 – 3 October 1945
Preceded byHamilton Lamb
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Borung
In office
10 November 1945 – 22 April 1955
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Lowan
In office
28 May 1955 – 18 April 1964
Succeeded byJim McCabe
Personal details
Born
Johan Wilfred John Mibus

(1900-09-14)14 September 1900
Katyil (near Dimboola), Victoria
Died18 April 1964(1964-04-18) (aged 63)
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Political partyCountry Party
Liberal and Country Party
Spouse
Dora Esther Louise Graebner
(m. 1925)

Johan Wilfred John "Mick" Mibus, known as Wilfred Mibus or Mick Mibus (14 September 1900 – 18 April 1964) was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party representative of the electoral district of Lowan (called Borung from 1945 to 1955) from 1944 until his death in 1964.

Early life

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Wilfred Mibus was born in 1900 in the small settlement of Katyil, near Dimboola, Victoria, to pioneer farmer Carl August Mibus and his wife Mathilda Nuske. Mibus studied for the Lutheran ministry at Concordia College in Adelaide, South Australia. He also attempted three years of a medical degree at the University of Melbourne, but gave up his studies due to severe asthma.[1]

Political career

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Mibus worked as a campaign manager for his friend, Hamilton Lamb, who was the Member for Lowan from 1935 until 1943. Lamb died as a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp on the Burma Railway, and in his will, recommended that Mibus replace him in Lowan. Mibus was duly elected at the Lowan by-election on 4 November 1944.[2]

In 1949, Mibus was one of six Country MPs who defected to the Liberal and Country Party formed by Thomas Hollway from the Victorian division of the Liberal Party. The Country Party branded Mibus a "rebel" for his actions, and ran a Country candidate against him in Borung at the 1950 state election. Mibus was re-elected, and stated that the electors of Borung had endorsed his change of parties.[3]

Mibus died in office on 18 April 1964. He left an estate worth £A38,902 to his widow Dora, his son and his daughter.[4] No by-election was held for Lowan as a state election was held on 27 June that year, with Jim McCabe retaining the seat for the Liberal and Country Party.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Mibus, (Johan) Wilfred John, Re-member, Parliament of Victoria.
  2. ^ Lamb, Tony. "From Wimmera to War" (PDF). Australasian Study of Parliaments Group in Victoria. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  3. ^ "Electors Cleared Swing Says Mibus". The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 - 1954). Vic.: National Library of Australia. 19 May 1950. p. 1. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Minister left 38,902". The Age. 22 October 1964. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  5. ^ McCabe, James Edmund, Re-member, Parliament of Victoria.
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Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Member for Lowan
1944–1945
District abolished
District created Member for Borung
1945–1955
District abolished
District created Member for Lowan
1955–1964
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Minister for Water Supply
1955–1964
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Mines
1955–1964