Education
University of Melbourne. Wesley College.
University of Melbourne. Wesley College.
Though he was elected Senator each time as an Independent, he briefly served as leader of the Australia Party from August 1969 to January 1970. Turnbull also served as Mayor of Launceston from 1964 to 1965.
He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1946 to 1962 (1946–1959 for the Australian Labor Party, 1959–1962 as an Independent), then a Senator for Tasmania from 1962 until 1974.