A by-election was held for the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of
Glebe on 10 September 1898 because
James Hogue
James Arthur Hogue (born October 22, 1959) is an American impostor who most famously entered Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan.
Early life
Hogue was raised in a working-class family in Kansas City, Kansas, and graduated fro ...
had been appointed
Public Instruction
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...
and
Minister for Labour and Industry in the
Reid ministry.
Until 1904, members appointed to a ministerial position were required to face a by-election. These were generally uncontested. Of the three ministers appointed with the second arrangement of the Reid ministry, Glebe was the only electorate in which the by-election was contested.
Dates
Result
James Hogue
James Arthur Hogue (born October 22, 1959) is an American impostor who most famously entered Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan.
Early life
Hogue was raised in a working-class family in Kansas City, Kansas, and graduated fro ...
was appointed Minister for Public Instruction
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...
and Labour and Industry in the Reid ministry.
See also
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Electoral results for the district of Glebe
References
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1898 elections in Australia
New South Wales state by-elections
1890s in New South Wales