Longest Serving Members of the Australian Parliament

Longest Serving Members of the House of Representatives
Name	Party	Term Served (*=broken term)
Hughes, William Morris	ALP, Nat., Ind. Nat., UAP, LP	51 years, 7 months
Page, Sir Earle Christmas Grafton	FSU, CP	42 years
McEwen, Sir John	Vic. CP, CP	36 years, 5 months
Maloney, William Robert Nuttall	ALP, FLP, ALP	36 years, 5 months
Makin, Norman John Oswald	ALP, FLP, ALP	36 years, 1 month *
Brennan, Frank	ALP, FLP, ALP	36 years, 1 month *
Clark, James Joseph	Lang Lab., ALP	35 years, 1 month
Sinclair, Ian McCahon	CP, NCP, NPA	34 years, 9 months
Watkins, David	FLP, ALP	34 years
Groom, Sir Littleton Ernest	Prot., LP, Nat.	33 years, 1 month *
Francis, Sir Josiah	Nat., UAP, LP	32 years, 11 months
Holt, Harold Edward	UAP, LP	32 years, 4 months
Beazley, Kim Edward	ALP	32 years, 3 months
Daly, Frederick Michael	ALP	32 years, 3 months
Ward, Edward John	ALP, Lang Lab., ALP	32 years, 3 months *
Calwell, Arthur Augustus	ALP	32 years, 1 month
McMahon, Sir William	LP	32 years, 1 month
Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon	UAP, LP	31 years, 5 months
Uren, Thomas	ALP	31 years, 3 months
Scullin, James Henry	ALP, FLP, ALP	30 years, 10 months *
Cameron, Clyde Robert	ALP	30 years, 9 months
Lazzarini, Hubert Peter	ALP, Lang Lab., ALP	30 years, 1 month *

Longest Serving Members of the Senate
Name	Party	Term Served (*=broken term)
Pearce, Sir George Foster	ALP, Nat.	37 years, 1 month
Cooper, Sir Walter Jackson	Nat., CP	36 years, 6 months *
O'Byrne, Justin	ALP	34 years
Brown, Gordon	ALP	32 years, 11 months
Lynch, Patrick Joseph	ALP, Nat.	31 years, 4 months
Crawford, Thomas William	Nat., UAP	30 years
Foll, Hattil Spencer	Nat., UAP	30 years

Source: Parliamentary Library Publications

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