David Wheatcroft Cory AM (3 August 1928 – 14 February 2022) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
[2] Following the death of Otto Madsen in 1963, Cory won the resulting by-election for the Country Party.
He held the seat until the 1977 Queensland state elections when he retired from politics.
Although never a minister during his time in parliament, he held the following roles:[1] Cory was also Chairman of the Warwick Branch of the Graziers Association of South-East Queensland from 1961 to 1965.
Cory was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2004 Australia Day Honours for "service to the environment, particularly in the areas of rural lands protection in Queensland, and through animal, weed and pest management".