Local, State and Federal Politics
From 1940 until 1942 Frank Beaurepaire was the Lord Mayor of Melbourne. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1942.
He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1942, serving until 1952. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Senate for the United Australia Party in the 1943 federal election.
In 1948 he was part of a delegation that went to London to lobby at the 1948 Summer Olympics for Melbourne to host the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1949 Melbourne won the hosting rights and Beaurepaire was again re-elected as Lord Mayor. He hoped that he could preside over the Games. However, he died of a heart attack in the barber's chair at the Windsor Hotel, just seven months before the Games.
His son, Ian Francis Beaurepaire, was also a Lord Mayor of Melbourne.
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