James Joseph Carlton AO is a former Australian politician. Carlton was born in Sydney and earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney. His political career beginning at the Sydney University Liberal Club, of which he later became president, he succeeded Sir John Carrick as General Secretary of the NSW Liberal Party during the McMahon ? Snedden ? Fraser periods. He was elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 1977 election for the seat of Mackellar and was Minister for Health from May 1982 to the defeat of the Fraser Government in March 1983. He served on the Defence Sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, and held a number of Shadow Ministry positions in Opposition, including Shadow Minister for Defence from 1989 to 1990. He resigned from Parliament in January 1994. From 1994 to 2001 Carlton was Secretary General of the Australian Red Cross. As a founder of the Crossroads Group together with John Hyde and Peter Shack he was influential in establishing the free-market or 'dry' cause in the Parliamentary wing of the Australian Liberal Party. [More at Wikipedia]

May 13th, 1935 in Sydney (Age 89)