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President Eastern Goldfields District Council Australian Labor Party (ALP)
Member ALP Federal Executive 1923–24, 1932–1934 |
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3 October 1911 |
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Hannans |
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Electorates
- MLA Hannans 3 October 1911–12 March 1938
Office
- Minister without portfolio 17 April 1924–30 April 1927; for Mines and Health 30 April 1927–23 April 1930, 24 April 1933–12 March 1938
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Personal Information |
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23 September 1870 |
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Gibbons Plains, near Armidale, New South Wales, Australia |
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12 March 1938 |
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St John of God Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Family grave at Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Arrived WA 1895 |
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Son of Alexander Welch, farmer, and Anna Maria Richardson |
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Married 24 November 1892, private residence, Hamilton, NSW, (Baptist) to Jessie Kerr (born circa 1875 and died 11 September 1972), daughter of Adam and Jessie
Children: two sons and four daughters |
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Presbyterian |
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Educated state schools in the Newcastle district of NSW
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Miner |
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1884 began work in timber trade at Wallsend
1892 working as shoemaker
Miner on Eastern Goldfields |
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Lived at Paddington and then Kalgoorlie
General president Federated Miners’ Union
1930 to Canberra to stimulate passage of Gold Bounty Act
1935 visited London, England to promote investment in mining industry
Chairman board of directors Westralian Worker |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 148.
Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1, p. 350.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 26 February 2015. http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id=KC00040552
West Australian, 14 March 1938. |
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