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- MLA South Fremantle, 12 March 1921–16 March 1935 (resigned)
- Contested South Fremantle 27 October 1905, Yilgarn, 29 September 1917
Office
- Minister for Works, Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage, Labour and Trading Concerns 17 April 1924–23 April 1930; for Public Works, Labour and Water Supplies 2 April 1933–16 March 1935
- Deputy Leader, Labor Party 1930-35
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Contested Perth (House of Representatives) 31 May 1913, 5 September 1914
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Personal Information |
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28 October 1877 |
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
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12 July 1937 |
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Fremantle, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia.
Methodist Area, MON B section, 0082 grave site |
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1898 left for Perth |
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Son of Hugh, labourer, and Margaret McPhee |
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Married 1 January 1902, Fremantle (Baptist) to Elizabeth (Bessie) Ferres, (born circa May 1876 and died 23 September 1949), daughter of John Middleton and Caroline Mary Regener
Children: one son |
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Methodist |
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Bookbinder and farmer |
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Apprenticed to a bookbinder at age 14 years
Moved to Perth to work in Government Printing Office, 1898
President, Coastal Trades and Labour Council by 1905
General secretary, Australian Labor Party in Western Australia, 1914
Director, Westralian Worker
Treasurer, Workers’ Education Association from 1914
Had farm at Muntadgin
Part-owner, Captain Stirling Hotel
Chairman of commissioners, Agricultural Bank, 1935–1937 |
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Member, Bookbinders and Paper Rulers’ Industrial Union
Member, State War Council
Initiated construction of Canning Dam and reclamation of Swan River foreshore |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 127.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 6 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=afe6291d-c91c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c4b9 |
| Bibliography |
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Wendy Birman, 'McCallum, Alexander (Alick) (1877–1937)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mccallum-alexander-alick-7300/text12661, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 23 December 2015.
Erickson, Rica. Dictionary of Western Australians 1829-1914, Vol 5, The Golden Years 1889-1914.
Information from FJS Wise.
West Australian, 13 July 1937, 20 April 1935.
Westralian Worker, 19 July 1937. |