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3 October 1911 |
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Kalgoorlie |
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State
Electorates
- MLA Kalgoorlie, 3 October 1911–8 December 1913 (resigned), 21 October 1914–12 March 1921
- Contested Kalgoorlie 12 March 1921
Commonwealth
Electorates
- MHR Kalgoorlie, 16 December 1922–2 October 1940
Committees
- Member, Select Committee effects of Navigation Act on Trade 1923, Royal Commission National Insurance 1923–1927
- Member, Joint Committee Public Accounts 1929
Office
- Minister for Defence, 22 October 1929–4 February 1931; Works, Railways and PMG, 4 February 1931–6 January 1932
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Personal Information |
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21 December 1869 |
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Avoca, Victoria, Australia |
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2 October 1940 |
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Kalgoorlie, Western Australia |
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Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia |
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June 1895 to WA |
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Son of Thomas, bricklayer, builder and farmer, and Mary Marshall |
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Married 25 January 1899, St John’s Church, Kalgoorlie to Emily Ellenor Berry (born circa 1877 and died 19 February 1960), daughter of James and Sarah Jane Wood
Children: three sons and one daughter |
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Methodist |
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Educated local primary schools
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Bricklayer and clerk |
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Employee, Ballarat Telephone Co. before entering family bricklaying business
Clerk, Coolgardie, post office clerk, transferred to Kalgoorlie where founded branches of Australian Natives Association (ANA) and Posts and Telegraphs Union
Business manager, Westralian Worker, March 1921–December 1922
Owned farm in WA |
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Travelled through USA and Central America, nicknamed ‘Texas’, 1889–1895
Active member, Brickmasons Society, San Francisco
Helped initiate ANA, 1897
Pro-federationist 1906, foundation, president, Social Democratic Association
State president, ANA for several years |
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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. 84.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 30 June 2022.https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=e029ffb1-c71c-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
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Australian Worker, 18 December 1929
JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, p. 343
G. C. Bolton, 'Green, Albert Ernest (1869–1940)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/green-albert-ernest-6468/text11077, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 22 December 2015.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Handbook
J Rydon, A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1975.
West Australian, 2 and 3 October 1940
Who's Who in Australia (1927–1939) |