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Joined Australian Labor Party 1910 |
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22 May 1900 |
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Central |
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Electorates
- MLC Central Province 3 May 1900–21 May 1918, 22 May 1924–17 July 1947
- Contested Central Province 11 May 1918
Office
- Served in Labor ministry 1904–1905
- Minister for Lands 10 August 1904–7 June 1905
- Colonial Secretary and Minister for Agriculture 7 June–5 August 1905
- Colonial Secretary 7 October 1911–27 July 1916
- Chief Secretary Minister for Education, Health and the North-West 16 April 1924–23 April 1930
- Chief Secretary 24 April 1933–1927 August 1936
- Leader Labor Party in Legislative Council 1910–1936
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Personal Information |
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17 October 1865 |
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Wanerenooka, near Northampton, Western Australia |
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17 July 1947 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Cornelius, farmer, and Mary Gavin |
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Married 19 February 1895, Geraldton to Mary Frances Comerford (born 19 May 1869), daughter of Martin and Ellen Jones
Children: two sons and one daughter
Widowed 31 July 1942 |
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Catholic |
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Left school at 15 years old
Learnt journalism at Fremantle 1885
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Journalist |
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Telegraphist for two years
Then employed by Gale, Monger and Company, Geraldton
Taught two years Northampton Assisted School
Contributor to Catholic Record (later Western Australian Record)
1887–1889 sub-editor for Western Australian Record, Fremantle
1890 started vineyard and orchard at Northampton
Secretary and manager Victoria Express (later Geraldton Express), editor from 1892 to 1905, owner from 1912
Director WA Provincial Cooperative Press Limited
For many years regular contributor to Sydney Bulletin
Wrote Early Northampton, An Undenominational Church, Journal of Royal Historical Society of Western Australia II, xi, 30 (1932) |
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Strongly anti-federationist 1899, backed conscription 1916
Member Holy Name Society
1925–1944 member Senate University of Western Australia |
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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, p. 67. |
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Mary Albertus Bain, 'Drew, John Michael (1865–1947)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/drew-john-michael-6018/text10283, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 17 December 2015.
Battye I, 322
BDWA II
Twentieth Century Impressions, 23.
West Australian, 18 July 1947. |