Cleaver Bunton
1902–1999 (age 97)
Biography
Cleaver Ernest Bunton (5 May 1902 – 20 January 1999) was an Australian independent politician who served as the mayor of Albury for three non-consecutive terms between 1945 and 1976. He was first elected to Albury City Council in 1925 and was an aldermen for 45 years.
Bunton came to national prominence in 1975 when he was controversially appointed to the Senate by New South Wales premier Tom Lewis, a member of the Liberal Party, to fill a position vacated by a Labor Party member.