Alfred Deakin

Date of birth | 3 August 1856

Date of death | 7 October 1919

Wife | Pattie Deakin
Party | Protectionist Party
As Prime Minister
(Term 1)
From | 24 September 1903
To | 27 April 1904
Succeeded | Edmund Barton
Preceded | John Watson
(Term 2)
From | 5 July 1905
To | 13 November 1908
Succeeded | George Reid
Preceded | Andrew Fisher
(Term 3)
From | 2 June 1909
To | 29 April 1910
Succeeded | Andrew Fisher
Preceded | Andrew Fisher

Alfred Deakin was Australia's second Prime Minister, and one of two Australian Prime Ministers to hold the office three times.

Like his predecessor, Deakin held political office prior to Federation, although in this case in Victoria. He also travelled with Barton to London to oversee the passage of the Commonwealth Constitution Bill through the British parliament.

During Barton's term as Prime Minister, Deakin held the office of Attorney General.

## Sources[edit]

* National Museum of Australia, Alfred Deakin

Australian Prime Ministers

Edmund Barton (1901)

Alfred Deakin (1903, 1905, and 1909)
John Watson (1904)
George Reid (1904)
Andrew Fisher (1908, 1910, and 1914)
Joseph Cook (1913)
William Hughes (1915)

| Stanley Bruce (1923)

James Scullin (1929)
Joseph Lyons (1932)
Earle Page (1939)
Robert Menzies (1939 and 1949)
Arthur Fadden (1941)
John Curtin (1941)

| Francis Forde (1945)

Joseph Chifley (1945)
Harold Holt (1966)
John McEwen (1967)
John Gorton (1968)
William McMahon (1971)
Gough Whitlam (1972)

| Malcolm Fraser (1975)

Robert Hawke (1983)
Paul Keating (1991)
John Howard (1996)
Kevin Rudd (2007)