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Keith Alexander Laught (2 June 1907 – 13 May 1969) was an Australian politician. Laught was born in Mitcham, South Australia. His parents were telegraph clerk Alexander Veitch Laught and his wife Johanne Christiane née Wittber. He was educated at Unley High School and Scotch College then the University of Adelaide, becoming a barrister and solicitor in 1928 and moving to the Mid North town of Clare where he met and married his wife, Josephine Faith (Jo) née Hackett. Laught remained Presbyterian but was married in his bride's Anglican church in 1935. The couple moved to Mount Gambier in 1938.