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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1917–1920
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly as elected at the 15 November 1917 election and subsequent by-elections up to the election of 6 August 1920: : Elmslie died 11 May 1918; replaced by Joseph Hannan in June 1918; Hannan resigned in October 1919 to (unsuccessfully) contest the Federal seat of Fawkner; replaced by Arthur Wallace in November 1919. : John Hall was replaced by John Pennington in February 1918 after Pennington was declared elected by the Elections and Qualification Committee. : Stewart resigned in October 1919; replaced by Francis Old in November 1919. Sources Re-member(a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria that follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system. It consists of the King, represented by the Governor of Victoria, the Legislative Assembly and .... * {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Victorian Legisl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Victorian Legislative Assembly
{{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2015 {{Use Australian English, date=June 2015 The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1859–1861 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1861–1864 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1864–1865 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1866–1867 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1868–1871 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1871–1874 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1874–1877 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1877–1880 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1880–1880 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1880–1883 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1883–1886 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1886–1889 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Toorak
The Electoral districts of Victoria, electoral district of Toorak was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the British colony and later Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Electoral boundary A 1956 map of electoral boundaries shows the Toorak district encompassing the inner Melbourne suburbs of Toorak, Victoria, Toorak and South Yarra, Victoria, South Yarra. The district was bordered by the Yarra River to the north, Kooyong Road to the east, Commercial Road and Malvern Road to the south and St Kilda Road to the east.Map showing State Electoral Districts of Toorak and Prahran State Library of Victoria, 1956. Members for Toorak Election results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Toorak Former electoral dist ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cameron (Victorian Politician)
James Cameron (1846 – 13 July 1922) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born in Logie-Almond in Perthshire to farmer Alexander Cameron and Anne Pullar. The family moved to Victoria in 1854, settling first at Batesford and then at Beremboke. Cameron became a farmer at Orbost, and also developed business interests in mines at Nowa Nowa and in farm machinery. On 30 April 1879 he married Sarah Scouller, with whom he had seven children. He served on Tambo Shire Council from 1888 to 1892 (president 1885–86, 1890–91) and on Orbost Shire Council from 1892 to 1902 (president 1892–93). In 1902 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Gippsland East. He moved the no-confidence motion against the Bent government in 1908, and was a minister without portfolio from 1909 to 1913. Later a Nationalist, he held his seat until 1920, when he was defeated by a Victorian Farmers' Union The Victorian Farmers' Union (VFU) was an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Dalhousie
Dalhousie was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1927. It was based in north-western Victoria. The district had been named Electoral district of Anglesey. The district of Dalhousie was defined in the 1858 Electoral Act as : Members for Dalhousie : Snodgrass was member for Anglesey 1856 to 1859 :Anglesey existed in a second incarnation from 1889 to 1904. # = by-election The new Electoral district of Bulla and Dalhousie Bulla and Dalhousie (also referred to as Bulla-Dalhousie) was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created in 1927 with the merging of the previous districts of Bulla and Dalhousie, and was abolished in 1945, with ... was created in 1927 when Dalhousie was abolished. Pollard was member for Bulla and Dalhousie 1927–1932. Election results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dalhousie Former electoral districts of Victoria (Australia) 1859 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Cameron (politician)
Allan Francis Cameron (11 April 1868 – 28 December 1923) was an Australian politician. He was born at Kangaroo Ground to Ewen Hugh Cameron, also a politician, and Agnes Bell. He was a bank manager, running branches of the Commercial Bank at Romsey and Lancefield. On 24 October 1900 he married Jessie Lauder; they had three children. In 1914 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presidin ... as the Liberal member for Dalhousie. He served until his death at Jolimont in 1923. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Allan 1868 births 1923 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Jika Jika
The electoral district of Jika Jika was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. The district was defined by the Electoral Districts Boundaries Act 1903: The district was abolished in a redistribution in 1927, replaced by the electoral district of Northcote The electoral district of Northcote is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the suburbs of Alphington, Fairfield, Northcote, Thornbury, and part of Preston. It lies on the northern bank of the Yarra River .... Members for Jika Jika Election results References Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1904 establishments in Australia 1927 disestablishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cain (34th Premier Of Victoria)
John Cain (19 January 1882 – 4 August 1957) was an Australian politician, who became the 34th premier of Victoria, and was the first Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He is the only premier of Victoria to date whose son has also served as premier. Early life Cain was born, one of 18 siblings, in Greendale, Victoria, near Bacchus Marsh. His father, Patrick Kane, was an Irish-born Roman Catholic who worked as a small farmer and contractor. As a young man John Kane changed the spelling of his surname and converted to Anglicanism. He left no personal papers and very little is known about his youth (so little, indeed, that reference works published during his lifetime, and shortly after his death, continued to give the year of his birth as 1887). He had little education, and worked from an early age as a farm labourer. By 1907 he had moved to Melbourne, where he worked as a fruiterer in Northcote. Political career Around 1910 Cain j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Wangaratta
The Electoral district of Wangaratta was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created in the redistribution of 1904, the Electoral district of Wangaratta and Rutherglen being abolished. The district of Wangaratta was defined in the Electoral District Boundaries Act 1903, parts of the boundary included: "''the junction of the Indigo Creek with the Murray River ... north boundary of the parish of Chiltern ... the Ovens River; thence south easterly by that river to the west boundary of the parish of Whorouly; ... the south boundaries of the parishes of Whorouly and Myrtleford to the Buffalo River; thence southerly by that river to Mount Howitt; thence north-westerly by a direct line to a point on the west branch of the King River ... the boundary of the township of Glenrowen ic..''" Wangaratta was abolished in the redistribution of 1927, a new Electoral district of Wangaratta and Ovens was created at that time. John Bowser represented Wangaratta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowser
Sir John Bowser (2 September 1856 – 10 June 1936), Australian politician, was the 26th Premier of Victoria. He was born in London, the son of an army officer, and arrived in Melbourne as a child with his family. He grew up at Bacchus Marsh and when he left school got a job with the ''Bacchus Marsh Express''. As a young man he went to Scotland and worked on newspapers while studying at University of Edinburgh. Returning to Australia, he settled in Wangaratta, where he farmed and managed the ''Wangaratta Chronicle'', which he eventually bought. In October 1894 Bowser was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Wangaratta and Rutherglen. Wangaratta and Rutherglen was renamed to Electoral district of Wangaratta in 1906; it was renamed again to Electoral district of Wangaratta and Ovens in 1927; Bowser held the seat until November 1929. In total Bowser represented Wangaratta, in its different names, for 35 years. He was Minister for Public Instruction in the Liberal g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Fitzroy (Victoria)
The electoral district of Fitzroy was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the British colony and later Australian state of Victoria, centred on the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to: People As a given name *Several members of the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name: **FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855) ** Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beau .... Members for Fitzroy Election results References Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1877 establishments in Australia 1927 disestablishments in Australia 1958 establishments in Australia 1967 disestablishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Billson
John William Billson (10 January 1862 – 23 December 1924) was a British-born Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Fitzroy from 1900 to 1924 and the deputy leader of the state Labor Party from 1913 to 1924. Billson was born in Leicester, England, where he became a bootmaker and trade unionist. He married Sarah Jane Sarson Coverley on 14 October 1882; they had three children. Billson migrated to Australia in 1886, continued working as a bootmaker and became president of the Victorian Operative Bootmakers' Union in 1893-95, serving in that capacity during the prominent 1894-95 bootmakers' strike. His unionism made finding work difficult; he went briefly to Sydney, before returning to Victoria to become the union's general secretary from 1895 to 1901. Billson was also a City of Richmond councillor from 1898 to 1900, a member of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council from 1890 and the council's president from 1900 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Ovens
Ovens (or The Ovens) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1927. It was based in northern Victoria, bordered by the Ovens River in the south-west and included the town of Beechworth, Victoria. The district of Ovens was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856. It was defined in the Victorian Constitution Act 1855 (taking effect at the 1856 elections) as: Ovens was superseded by Electoral district of Wangaratta and Ovens in 1927. Members for Ovens One member initially, two from the increase in members of 1859. One again from the redistribution of 1889 when the Electoral district of Wangaratta and Rutherglen Wangaratta and Rutherglen was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1889 to 1904. It was located around the towns of Wangaratta and Rutherglen. When it was abolished in 1904, the new Electo ..., amongst others ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
