Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Murchison, 12 March 1921–19 August 1952
Committees
- Chairman of Committees, August 1939–3 August 1945
Office
- Minister for Mines, Railways and Transport, 3 August 1945–1 April 1947
Historical Notes
- Father of the House, October 1948–August 1952
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Personal Information |
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22 June 1885 |
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North Creswick, Victoria, Australia |
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19 August 1952 |
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Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia |
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Darwin Cemetery, Northern Territory, Australia |
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To WA in his early twenties |
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Son of William, miner, and Maria Casey |
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Married (1) 3 October 1918, Roman Catholic Church, Meekatharra to Kathleen Ellen Sheehy (born circa 1894 and died 27 January 1981), daughter of Francis Peter and Honorah Callaghan
Divorced 13 July 1949
Children: two sons and four daughters
Married (2) 10 October 1949, District Registry Office, Perth to Ethel Margaret Cox (nee Fussell), divorced 1938, daughter of Samuel William and Mary Ann Chaffin
No children
Cousin of Robert James Percival Marshall |
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Catholic |
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Educated Creswick and Singapore
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Miner |
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Mining, Malaya and Rhodesia
Labourer, Lawlers and later at Youanmi, 1910–1913
To Queen of the Hills mine, Meekatharra, 1913
Engine driver and amalgamator, Meekatharra until 1921 |
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Resident, Redcliffe during parliamentary career
Member, Douglas Social Credit Movement, 1930s
Visited NSW, 1941 to recruit skilled miners for WA
Known as ‘Lavender Bill’ because of his tastes in clothes |
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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, 2001, p.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 6 July 2022. (Wife's record Kathleen Ellen Marshall) https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=4005bb57-031d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbf0 |
Bibliography |
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Bulletin (Sydney), 9 May 1941.
Kalgoorlie Miner, 20 August 1952.
West Australian, 20 August 1952.
Western Australian Parliamentary Debates, vol. 131, p. 412–416. |