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Secretary of South Fremantle branch 1905 and Metropolitan Council 1920 of the Australian Labor Party (ALP)
Member ALP Federal Executive 1915–1923 |
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12 March 1921 |
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South Fremantle |
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State
Electorates
- 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 |
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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
1898 left for Perth where worked in Government Printing Office, member Bookbinders and Paper Rulers’ Industrial Union
By 1905 president Coastal Trades and Labour Council
1914 general secretary Australian Labor Party in Western Australia
Director of Westralian Worker
Treasurer from 1914 of Workers’ Education Association
On State War Council
Had farm at Muntadgin
Part-owner of Captain Stirling Hotel
Chairman of commissioners Agricultural Bank 1935–1937 |
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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 19 February 2015. http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id=FB00017225 |
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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. |