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Electoral Division Of Huon
The Electoral division of Huon is one of the 15 electoral divisions in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It was created in 1999, however similar electorates of this name have existed since 1900, and members of the Tasmanian upper house for this region appear to have been elected since 1856. The total area of the division is since a redistribution in August 2017. As of 31 January 2019, there were 25,335 enrolled voters in the division. The current sitting member of the division is Dean Harris, elected in the 2022 by-election. The next periodic election in the division is due in May 2026. The division includes the local municipalities of Huon Valley and Kingborough. Localities include Huonville, Margate, Cygnet, Franklin, Geeveston, Bruny Island, Snug, and Howden. Members See also * Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Harriss
Dean Andrew Harriss is an Australian politician. At a May 2022 by-election, he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Huon, following the resignation of Labor-turned-independent MLC Bastian Seidel. Harriss is the son of former Huon MLC Paul Harriss Andrew Paul Harriss (11 August 1954 – 1 October 2022) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from March 2014 to February 2016, representing the electorate of Franklin. Harriss was an in .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harriss, Dean Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania 21st-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party, and therefore choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it, or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In running for public office, independents sometimes choose to form a party or alliance with other independents, and may formally register their party or alliance. Even where the word "independent" is used, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Worsley
Rowland Leonard Worsley (12 July 1907 – ?) was an Australian politician. He was born in Margate. In 1942 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ... as the Labor member for Huon. He served as a minister from 1946 until 1948, when he lost his seat. References 1907 births Year of death missing Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Calvert (Australian Politician)
William Henry Fairfax Calvert (14 February 1871 – 8 June 1942) was an Australian politician. He was born in South Arm, Tasmania. In 1924 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Huon, succeeding his brother David. He held the seat until his retirement in 1942; he died a month later 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 1871 births 1942 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Calvert (Australian Politician)
David Charles Hedley Calvert (8 May 1875 – 17 October 1924) was an Australian politician. He was born at South Arm, Tasmania. In May 1924 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Huon, but he died at Waterloo in October of that year. He was succeeded by his brother William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl .... References 1875 births 1924 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stafford Bird
Bolton Stafford Bird CMG (30 January 1840 – 15 December 1924) was an English-born Australian Congregationalist clergyman, farmer and politician. Bird was born in Hazlerigg, Northumberland, the son of the local schoolmaster. In 1852 the family emigrated to Australia and began farming at Clunes, Victoria. In 1865 Bird was ordained in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, but in 1867 transferred to the Congregational Church as minister of the church at Ballarat. In 1870 he took charge of several churches in the Avoca district. In 1874 he took over the church in Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania, but resigned in 1877 due to ill-health and bought a farm near Geeveston in the Huon district. He grew apples, which he began to ship to England, thus becoming a pioneer of the Tasmanian apple export industry. In August 1891, however, the Bank of Van Diemen's Land, with whom Bird held a mortgage, collapsed and he lost the farm, moving to a much smaller property at Lunawanna on Bruny Island. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fisher (Australian Politician)
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John Watchorn
John Watchorn (1826 – 4 March 1905) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1882 until his death in 1905 and was Mayor of Hobart in 1890 and from 1894 to 1896. Watchorn was born in Nottingham, England in 1826. He migrated to Tasmania with his family in 1837. He was a publican and wine merchant outside of politics. He was a City of Hobart councillor from 1876 to 1896 and mayor in 1890 and from 1894 to 1896. He also served as a magistrate and as a member of the Metropolitan Drainage Board. Watchorn was declared elected unopposed to the Legislative Council in June 1881, filling a vacancy in the Huon electorate caused by the invalidation of Joseph Solomon's 1880 election. However, his election was challenged by petition, and in August 1881 the Elections and Qualifications Committee of the Legislative Council unseated Watchorn and declared William Fisher, Solomon's 1880 challenger, to have been elected. Fisher died on 3 April 1882, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fisher (politician)
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Joseph Solomon (politician) (1930–2023), West Indian cricketer
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Joseph Solomon may refer to: * Joseph Solomon (murderer) (died 1995), convicted murderer executed by Saint Lucia * Joseph J. Solomon Jr. (born 1984), American politician in the Rhode Island House of Representatives * Joseph Michael Solomon (1886–1920), South African architect * Joe Solomon Joseph Stanislaus Solomon (born 26 August 1930) is a former international cricketer who played 27 Test cricket, Test matches for the West Indies cricket team, West Indies from 1958 to 1965, scoring 1,326 runs, mainly from number six and seven in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robertson (Tasmanian Politician)
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John Foster (Tasmanian Politician)
John Foster (1792–1875) was the eldest son of a Yorkshire farmer and landowner who came to Tasmania as a free settler in 1823, with his widowed mother, Jane, and youngest brother, Henry. The family received grants of land near Campbell Town, Tasmania, Campbell Town where they became successful farmers. Foster later expanded his business interests by acquiring landholdings in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, by trading goods he produced and by becoming a shipowner. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1836 and, between 1866 and 1874, he represented Electoral division of Huon, Huon electoral division on the Tasmanian Legislative Council Early years John Foster was the eldest son of John Foster (1758–1816), a farmer and landowner of Armitstead Hall, Settle, North Yorkshire, Settle, Yorkshire, England, and his wife Jane, née Dowbiggin. Armitstead Hall was a spacious home at the centre of an estate of about 370 acres. Foster was educated at The Crossley Heath School, Heath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
