Evan Alexander Davies (25 June 1889 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the

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from 1930 until 1932, representing the electorate of

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. Davies was born in

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, and migrated to Australia in 1920. He worked as a miner on the Southern coalfields, and served as councillor and vice-president of the Southern Districts Miners' Federation. He subsequently moved to

, where he was active in Labor politics as a member of the party's Gladesville branch and Ryde electorate council. Davies entered state politics at the 1930 election, when he won the Nationalist-held seat of

amidst Labor's major election victory under Jack Lang. His career was to be short-lived, however; Davies lost his seat to the

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in 1932, one of many Labor MLAs to lose their seats that year amidst a devastating Labor loss, following Lang's dismissal as Premier by the state Governor. He again contested Ryde in 1935, but lost to Spooner a second time. Later in life Davies was the licensee of the Albion Hotel at

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. He died at Armidale in 1948.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Evan 1889 births 1948 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians