Doris Blackburn

Doris Amelia Blackburn was an Australian social reformer and politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1949, the second woman after Enid Lyons to do so. Blackburn was a prominent socialist and originally a member of the Labor Party. She was married to Maurice Blackburn, a Labor MP, but he was expelled from the party in 1937 and she resigned from the party in solidarity. Her husband died in 1944, and she was elected to his former seat at the 1946 federal election – the first woman elected to parliament as an independent. However, Blackburn served only a single term before being defeated. She later served as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

18 September 1889

Born on the same birth date (18 September 1889): Leslie Morshead

Born on the same birth day (18 September): Agnes de Mille • Carolyn Harris • Cassius Marcellus Coolidge • Christian VIII of Denmark • Dan Eldon • Fay Compton • Johnny Mantz • Josef Tal • Justinus Kerner • Lord Berners • Marie of France, Duchess of Bar • Nicholas Clay • Powel Crosley Jr. • Teddi King • Tom Chorske • Winston Davis • Şenes Erzik

Born in the same month (September 1889): C. K. Scott Moncrieff • Charles Reidpath • Claude McKay • Gordon Brewster • Hooks Dauss • Ivar Böhling • Jack Fournier • Leslie Morshead • Oskar Kaplur • Robert A. Taft • Robert Benchley • Sarah Louise Delany • Ugo Pasquale Mifsud