Charles Perkins (politician)

Charles Collier Perkins (8 August 1906 – 7 November 1961) was an Australian politician who was a Country Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1942 until his death.

Educated at Geelong Grammar School, he arrived in Western Australia in 1929 and purchased a farm at Belka, which he owned for the rest of his life.

Perkins became prominent in agricultural circles, serving on the executive of the Primary Producers' Association and as a director of Westralian Farmers Ltd, a co-operative.

[1] He entered parliament at the 1942 York by-election, which had been caused by the resignation of Charles Latham (a former Country Party leader).

[3] Perkins died of a heart attack in November 1961, at his home in Wembley, and was given a state funeral at St George's Cathedral.