Parliamentary Service |
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MLC |
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Labor to 1917
then National |
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22 May 1910 |
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South |
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Electorates
- MLC South Province, 22 May 1910–2 January 1928
- Contested South Province, 13 May 1908
Office
- Minister without portfolio, 7 October 1911–27 July 1916
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1928 |
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Personal Information |
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14 June 1867 |
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Callington, South Australia, Australia |
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2 January 1928 |
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Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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William Jabez, blacksmith, and Margaret Trenwith |
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Married 7 May 1891, residence of Mrs Barbara Johnston, South Broken Hill, New South Wales to Florence Wilson Johnston (born circa August 1874 and died 27 July 1942), daughter of John and Barbara Morris
Children: five sons |
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Methodist |
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Educated locally
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Union secretary |
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Mining in Broken Hill, 1889–1896, involved in strikes of 1890 and 1892
Miner and union organiser, Coolgardie, 1896–1899 |
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Resident of Kadina, South Australia, 1871–1889
Kalgoorlie, 1899–1900
Led breakaway Australian Miners’ Association, 1901
Secretary, Kalgoorlie–Boulder Branch of Federated Miners’ Union, 1899–1911
Vice-president, Goldfields Trades and Labour Council by 1903; trustee, 1904; convenor of Mine Workers’ Relief Fund Conference, 1914
Regular contributor to The Worker |
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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, 2010, p. 64-65.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 28 June 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=24886a66-f91c-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
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