Members’ biographical register

George McLeod

House

MLA

Party

Labor President Kalgoorlie Branch Australian Labor Federation (ALF) 1910 vice-president ALF (Eastern Goldfields District Council), president 1912–1916

Date first elected

4 February 1914

Year Retired/Resigned

1914

Electorate(s)

Kalgoorlie

Inaugural Speech

Valedictory Video

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLA Kalgoorlie 4 February (by-election)–21 October 1914
Contested Kalgoorlie 11 September 1908, Mt Margaret 29 September 1917

Personal Information

Death date

22 August 1919

Place of death

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Cemetery

Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia

Arrived in WA

Came to WA 1900

Occupation

Miner and union secretary

Employment History

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)

Local Government

Kalgoorlie Municipal Council

Background/Membership

At Menzies and Laverton
Presbyterian then agnostic

References

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.

Further Information