Adam McLellan (10 April 1865 – 12 March 1929) was an Australian politician. He was born in Moorooduc to farmer Alexander McLellan and Margaret Jenkins. He travelled to

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in his youth, and then became a grocer in Footscray around 1892. On 27 July 1892 he married Jessie Jemima Fleming, with whom he would have six children. From around 1894 he was a smallgoods manufacturer in

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, and he was a founding member of the local branch of the Labour Party. In 1904 he was elected to the

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for

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, one of the first two Labour members to win election to that body. He was briefly Minister of

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in December 1913. In 1917 he resigned from parliament and from the Labor Party over the issue of conscription. McLellan died in

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in 1929.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McLellan, Adam 1865 births 1929 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Vice-Presidents of the Board of Land and Works Ministers for Public Works (Victoria) Colony of Victoria people