Pearce and the 1937 Election

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

Items 151-261. Press cuttings and correspondence on the campaign generally; Pearce's election expenses; printed statistics of the Western Australia results in 1931-1937; collection of funds by the National Union of Western Australia and finance organizations in Melbourne and Sydney; organization of campaign against John Curtin's retention of the Fremantle seat; press cuttings of anti-Pearce election advertisements.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The National Library's collections of Pearce Papers were received in three separate groups, the first of which was received in 1951 from Sir George himself. The other two groups received in 1966 and 1967 came from his son Philip, through Peter R. (later Sir Peter) Heydon.Other papers from Sir George's three terms between 1908 and 1921 as Minister for Defence, were lodged in the Australian War Memorial. A further set of papers are held in the Commonwealth Archives Office (CP 820) having been transferred there in August 1960 via a strongroom from Pearce's office in Parliament House. These include (i) personal papers while he was Vice-President of the Executive Council (1926-29) and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (1930-31) and (ii) private papers 1915-30 relating to private and business interests, chiefly property, taxation and legal matters.

Names:

George Foster Pearce

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