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Candidates Of The 1912 Tasmanian State Election
The 1912 Tasmanian state election was held on 30 April 1912 Retiring Members Liberal * Edward Crowther MHA ( Denison) *Thomas Hodgman MHA (Franklin) House of Assembly Sitting members are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MHA are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are indicated by an asterisk (*). Bass Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats. Darwin Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Party was defending two seats. Denison Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats. Franklin Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats. Wilmot Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending one seat. The Liberal Party was defending five seats. {, class="wikitab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1912 Tasmanian State Election
The 1912 Tasmanian state election was held on Tuesday, 30 April 1912 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system . — six members were elected from each of five electorates. Elliott Lewis was elected as an at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Braddon (state)
The electoral division of Braddon (named Darwin until 1955) is one of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, it includes North West Tasmania, north-west and Western Tasmania, western Tasmania as well as King Island (Tasmania), King Island. Braddon takes its name from the former Premier of Tasmania, Edward Braddon, Sir Edward Braddon. The division shares its name and boundaries with the Division of Braddon, federal division of Braddon. Braddon and the other House of Assembly electoral divisions are each represented by five members elected under the Hare-Clark electoral system. History and electoral profile Prior to 1955, the electorate was known as Darwin. The electoral constituency includes; King Island (Tasmania), King Island, the North-west towns of Devonport, Tasmania, Devonport, Burnie, Tasmania, Burnie, Wynyard, Tasmania, Wynyard, Ulverstone, Tasmania, Ulverstone, Penguin, Tasmania, Penguin, and Smithton, Tasmania, Smithton, as well as the West Coast t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott Lewis (politician)
Sir Neil Elliott Lewis (27 October 1858 – 22 September 1935),Scott Bennett, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, MUP, 1986, pp 94-95. Retrieved 2009-09-13 Australian politician, was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions. He was also a member of the Barton ministry, first Australian federal ministry, led by Edmund Barton. Early life Lewis was born in Hobart, son of Neil Lewis, a merchant, and his wife Anne Maria, ''née'' Cox. N. E. Lewis was the grandson of Richard Lewis (government auctioneer) and nephew of David Lewis, colonial treasurer 1878–79. Educated at the Hobart College (Tasmania), Hobart High School, Lewis took the diploma of associate of arts with gold medal, and was awarded a Tasmanian scholarship. Lewis then attended Balliol College, Oxford University graduating Bachelor of Arts, B.A., 1882 and Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), M.A. & Bachelor of Civil Law, B.C.L. in 1885. He was admitted as a barrister in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John George Davies
Sir John George Davies (17 February 1846 – 12 November 1913), generally known as (Sir) George Davies, was a Tasmanian politician, newspaper proprietor and first-class cricketer. Davies' Jewish father John Snr. and grandfather had been transported to Australia as convicts and Davies was born in Melbourne to John Snr. and Elizabeth Davies (née Ellis) following Davies Snr's release. The Davies family moved to Tasmania, where Davies Snr co-founded the ''Hobart Mercury'' and became a prominent citizen of Hobart, including serving in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Davies and his brother Charles were educated at Melbourne Grammar School and The Hutchins School in Hobart, where he showed great promise as a sportsman. Sporting career Davies' cricketing skills led him to play against the touring H.H. Stephenson's English side in 1862, aged 16, scoring six. He continued to represent Tasmania in non-first-class matches throughout the 1860s. Davies made his first-class cricket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Woods (politician)
Walter Alan Woods (28 December 1861 – 28 February 1939) was an Australian Labor politician and journalist. He was born Walter William Head at Oakleigh, Victoria on 28 December 1861. He later used various names throughout his life. Parliamentary career In 1906 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for North Hobart, representing the Labor Party; with the introduction of proportional representation in 1909 he was elected as one of the members for Denison. He served as Speaker of the House from 1914 to 1916. In 1917 he resigned to contest the Senate election but was unsuccessful. Re-elected to the House in 1925, he was re-appointed Speaker in 1926, serving until 1928. Woods was defeated in 1931 and died in 1939 at Hobart. Journalist career In 1891 he was one of the founders of the Labor newspaper ''The Hummer'', a forerunner of ''The Australian Worker.'' On moving to Launceston in 1895, he was editor of ''The Tasmanian Democrat'', then moved to Hobart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sheridan (politician)
William Sheridan (12 March 1858 – 16 November 1931) was an Australian politician. He was born in Galway, Ireland. Having moved to Tasmania, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1909 as a Labor member for Denison. He was defeated in 1913 but returned in a recount following the death of John Davies in 1914. In 1925 he switched seats to contest Franklin, which he held until his defeat in 1928. Sheridan died in Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small .... References 1858 births 1931 deaths 19th-century Irish people Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly British emigrants to the Colony of Tasmania Politicians from County Galway Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Barker
Vincent William Oswald Barker (31 July 1876 – 2 December 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born in Rosegarland in Tasmania. In 1912 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Denison, serving until his retirement in 1916. Barker died in Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ... in 1937. References 1876 births 1937 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Whitsitt
Joshua Thomas Hoskins Whitsitt (26 September 1869 – 14 September 1943) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1909 to 1922 and a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1922 to 1925. Early life and business career Whitsitt was born in County Fermanagh and attended college in Belfast. He visited Tasmania at the age of eighteen, intending to return to Ireland, but instead remained in Australia. He worked as an accountant for the Bank of Australasia at Burnie, Tasmania, Burnie, where he was also a prominent tennis player, winning the state doubles championship and the 1894 intercolonial matches. He married Bertha Quiggin in May 1899. He resigned from the bank in 1900 to become resident secretary of the Blyth Iron Mine Company, while also becoming a farmer and grazier at "Roselea", his property at Cooee, Tasmania, Cooee. State politics In December 1908, Whitsitt announced that he would contest the 1909 Tasmanian state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pullen (politician)
George Gerald Pullen (15 July 1873 – 14 June 1953) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sassafras, Tasmania. In 1912 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Darwin. He was defeated in 1916 but re-elected as a Nationalist in 1919, this time representing Wilmot Wilmot may refer to: Places Australia *Division of Wilmot, an abolished Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania * Wilmot, Tasmania, a locality in the North-West Region Canada *Wilmot, Nova Scotia, an unincorporated rural community and former t .... He served until his second defeat in 1922. Pullen died in Barrington in 1953. References 1873 births 1953 deaths Commonwealth Liberal Party politicians Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly {{Australia-Nationalist-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Payne
Herbert James Mockford Payne (17 August 186626 February 1944) was an Australian politician. He served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1920 to 1938 and as a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1903 to 1920. Payne was born in Hobart and worked as a draper in Burnie prior to entering politics. He was first elected to parliament at the 1903 state election and was known for his fiscal conservatism. He served as state treasurer and minister for agriculture and railways from 1912 to 1914. Payne was elected to the Senate at the 1919 federal election, representing the Nationalist Party. He won re-election twice, joining the United Australia Party (UAP) in 1931, but was defeated in 1937. He is primarily remembered for his role in the introduction of compulsory voting for federal elections, which became law in 1924 through his private senator's bill. Early life Payne was born on 17 August 1866 in Hobart, Tasmania, the son of Hannah (née Reed) and Henry Payne; his father wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lamerton
William Lamerton (1843 – 7 May 1918) was an Australian politician. Biography Lamerton was born in St Austell in Cornwall. In 1903 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Zeehan, initially for the Labor Party but later as an Independent Labor member. After his defeat in 1906 he joined the Anti-Socialist Party The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states, was an Australian political party, formally organised in 1887 in New South Wales, ... and eventually the Liberal Party. Lamerton died in 1918 at Launceston. References 1843 births 1918 deaths Free Trade Party politicians Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly People from St Austell English emigrants to colonial Australia Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania {{Australia-FreeTrade-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Watkins
Benjamin Watkins (26 July 1884 – 23 August 1963) was an Australian politician. Biography He was born in Hobart. In 1906 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the Labor member for Queenstown; following the introduction of proportional representation in 1909 he was elected as one of the members for Darwin. In 1917 he resigned to contest the federal election but was unsuccessful; he returned to the House as a member for Franklin in 1919. In 1922 he was defeated and ran for the 1922 federal election unsuccessfully; he returned to the House in 1925, serving until 1934. He was interim leader of the Tasmanian ALP in 1929 when previous leader Joe Lyons resigned to enter federal politics. Watkins relinquished the leadership when Albert Ogilvie was elected the new permanent leader. He left the Labor Party to become an Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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