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State
Electorates
- MLA Cue 24 June 1904–4 November 1913 (resigned); Geraldton 21 October 1914–20 March 1917 (resigned)
- Contested Geraldton 15 November 1913 (by-election)
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Kalgoorlie (House of Representatives) 5 May 1917–13 December 1919
- Contested Kalgoorlie (House of Representatives) 13 December 1919
State (Victoria)
Electorates
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Personal Information |
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3 June 1878 |
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California Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
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30 January 1934 |
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Golden Square, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
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Bendigo Cemetery, Bendigo, Victoria |
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1895 to WA |
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Son of Herman, carpenter and blacksmith, and Katherine Roberts
Uncle of John Heitman |
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Married (1) 29 June 1896, residence of John Johns, Bendigo, Victoria (Primitive Methodist) to Emma Jane Johns (born circa 1878), daughter of John Dawe and Emma Jane Trelease
Children: one son and two daughters
Widowed 12 December 1905
Married (2) 8 June 1909, St Andrews Church (Church of England), Subiaco to Ada Maude Cooke, (born circa 1875), daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth High
Children: two sons and one daughter |
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Not stated |
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Educated Victoria
1896 took course at Bendigo School of Mines
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Mine engine driver and union secretary |
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Miner from early age, shaftsman then qualified as engine driver
Organising secretary, Australian Workers' Union
Became editor, Kalgoorlie Express, 1913
Controller of transport for demobilisation of Australian Imperial Force, 1918–1919
Advertising agent, Adelaide
Farming at Laanecoorie in Victoria, 1921
Organising secretary, Advance Bendigo and the North League for 18 months |
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By 1896 returned to Victoria
Living on Murchison goldfields, WA, 1899
President, Day Dawn Engine Driver’s Association
Member, WA Health Commission inquiring into Miners Phthisis and contributed to establishment of tuberculosis sanatorium at Wooroloo
Returned to WA, 1919
To Bendigo, 1927
Much ill health in later life, in military hospital in Caulfield |
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JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, vol. 1, p. 344.
Bendigo Advertiser, 31 January 1934.
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. 95.
Morning Herald, 30 June 1904.
J Rydon, A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1975. |
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