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About Robert Richards
Robert Stanley Richards was an Australian politician. He served as premier of South Australia for two months in 1933, leading the Parliamentary Labor faction of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the aftermath of a major party split. His government was defeated in a landslide at the 1933 state election. He returned as leader of the reunited ALP from 1938 to 1949, leading the party to three consecutive electoral defeats as leader of the opposition in the face of severe electoral malapportionment. He later served as administrator of Nauru, a UN trust territory administered by Australia, from 1949 to 1951.
Everything about Robert Richards →- Occupation
- politician, miner, carpenter, trade unionist
- Position held
- Premier of South Australia, Member of the South Australian House of Assembly, Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party, Leader of the Australian Labor Party (SA Branch)
- Citizenship
- Australia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 31, 1885
- Died
- April 24, 1967