FADDEN, SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM

born April 13, 1895, Ingham, Queensland, Australia died April 21, 1973, Brisbane Fadden accountant, politician, and for a short time prime minister of Australia (1941). Fadden was active in local and state government as a young man, and he was a member of Parliament (193658) and leader of the Country Party (194158). As a member of the cabinet he held the position of minister for air and civil aviation (1940) and of treasurer (194041, 194958); he also served for five weeks as prime minister upon the resignation of Robert Gordon Menzies (later Sir Robert Menzies). He was knighted in 1951 and retired from politics in 1958.