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State
Electorates
- MLA Cue 24 June 1904–4 November 1913 (resigned); Geraldton 21 October 1914–20 March 1917 (resigned)
- Contested Geraldton 15 November 1913 (by-election)
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Kalgoorlie (House of Representatives) 5 May 1917–13 December 1919
- Contested Kalgoorlie (House of Representatives) 13 December 1919
State (Victoria)
Electorates
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Personal Information |
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30 January 1934 |
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Golden Square, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
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Bendigo Cemetery, Bendigo, Victoria |
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1895 to WA |
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Mine engine driver and union secretary |
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Miner from early age, shaftsman then qualified as engine driver
Organising secretary, Australian Workers' Union
Became editor, Kalgoorlie Express, 1913
Controller of transport for demobilisation of Australian Imperial Force, 1918–1919
Advertising agent, Adelaide
Farming at Laanecoorie in Victoria, 1921
Organising secretary, Advance Bendigo and the North League for 18 months |
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By 1896 returned to Victoria
Living on Murchison goldfields, WA, 1899
President, Day Dawn Engine Driver’s Association
Member, WA Health Commission inquiring into Miners Phthisis and contributed to establishment of tuberculosis sanatorium at Wooroloo
Returned to WA, 1919
To Bendigo, 1927
Much ill health in later life, in military hospital in Caulfield |
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JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, vol. 1, p. 344.
Bendigo Advertiser, 31 January 1934.
D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2001, p. 95.
Morning Herald, 30 June 1904.
J Rydon, A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1975. |
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