Ian Maxwell Braid is a former Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician. He was born in Sheffield, Tasmania

Sheffield, Tasmania

Sheffield is a town situated 23 km inland from Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia's island state. Sheffield has long been the rural hub for the Mount Roland area. The Sheffield area is well known for its high quality butterfat production via dairy farming. The area is...

, and is the cousin of former Tasmanian MLC

Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council

These are lists of members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council. Members of the Legislative Council serve six year terms, with two or three members facing re-election at periodic elections held every year...

 Harry Braid. In 1969, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly

Tasmanian House of Assembly

The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House...

 representing Wilmot

Division of Lyons (state)

The Electoral Division of Lyons, Tasmania is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, the lower house. The division is named after Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia 1931–39, Premier of Tasmania from 1923–1928 and his wife Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the...

 for the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

. He was defeated in 1972, but was re-elected in a countback following Angus Bethune's resignation. He served as a minister from 1982 to 1989 and from 1993 to 1995. He resigned his seat in 1995 and retired from politics.