Background
Small was born at Bondi in Sydney.
Small was born at Bondi in Sydney.
He was educated at Deniliquin and underwent national service 1954-1956.
Foreign the baseball player, see Jim Small (baseball). He was the National Party member for Murray in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1999. He was active in the local community and in the local branch of the Country Party for many years.
In 1984, following the resignation of the member for the local state seat of Murray, Tim Fischer, to contest the federal seat of Farrer, Small was selected as the Nationals" candidate for the by-election.
He held the seat easily until 1999, when it was combined with the solid Labor seat of Broken Hill to create the new seat of Murray-Darling, a marginal National seat.