Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor
President Kalgoorlie Branch Australian Labor Federation (ALF)
1910 vice-president ALF (Eastern Goldfields District Council), president 1912–1916 |
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4 February 1914 |
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Kalgoorlie |
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Electorates
- MLA Kalgoorlie 4 February (by-election)–21 October 1914
- Contested Kalgoorlie 11 September 1908, Mt Margaret 29 September 1917
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Personal Information |
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2 July 1884 |
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Government Well, Kapunda district, South Australia, Australia |
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22 August 1919 |
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Kalgoorlie, Western Australia |
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Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Came to WA 1900 |
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Son of James, labourer, engine driver and engineer and Mary McKinnon |
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Married 21 February 1914, Mt Lawley, (Methodist) to Evelyn Elsie May Beadle (born circa 1889 and died circa March 1946), daughter of Henry and Jean Miller
Children: two daughters |
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Presbyterian |
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Miner and union secretary |
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Goldminer at Kalgoorlie
1911 succeeded JE Dodd as secretary Kalgoorlie–Boulder branch, Federated Miners’ Union
1905 president Morgans branch Miners’ Union
After 1914 resumed mining
1916 state secretary Federated Mining Employees’ Association of Australia WA State Executive, Boulder
1919 secretary Australian Workers' Union (WA Mining Industry branch) |
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Kalgoorlie Municipal Council |
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At Menzies and Laverton
Presbyterian then agnostic |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 132.
West Australian, 5 February 1914.
Commonwealth Electoral Rolls, (Kalgoorlie)
Information from Mrs E Wood, Glendalough.
Westralian Worker, 14 August 1905. |
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