Alexander Armstrong (politician)

For other people named Alexander Armstrong, see Alexander Armstrong (disambiguation).

Alexander Armstrong
In office 23 April 1952 – 25 February 1969
Personal details
Born	Alexander Ewan Armstrong (1916-06-15)15 June 1916 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Liberal Party
Other political affiliations	Country Party
Spouse(s)	Marjorie Alma Goodhew Margaret Rose Cleary
Parents	George Armstrong Florence Edith Ewan
Alma mater	Scots College
Occupation	Grazier

Alexander Ewan Armstrong (15 June 1916 – 27 April 1985) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Sydney to doctor George Armstrong and Florence Edith Ewan. He attended Scots College and became a grazier, working first on the family's Albury property and then at Winderadeen and Collector. On 10 February 1945 he married Marjorie Alma Goodhew; they had two daughters, but were later divorced, and he remarried Margaret Rose Cleary in July 1963. A member of the Liberal Party, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1952. In 1956 he defected to the Country Party. In 1969, following the finding of the Court of Appeal in Barton v Armstrong that Armstrong had threatened to have a business associate killed, he was expelled from Parliament. He died at Alice Springs in 1985.