John Marcus Baddeley (20 November 1881 – 1 July 1953) was an Australian politician and member of the

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from 25 March 1922 to 8 September 1949.

Early life

Baddeley was born in

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, Staffordshire, England and migrated to Australia with his family at the age of two. He was educated at

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public school, but left at eleven to do odd jobs in the Glebe colliery near Merewether and then worked as a coal miner. in 1902 he married Harriet Churchill and they went on to have two sons and three daughters. He moved to Cessnock in 1908 to work at Neath Colliery and later at Aberdare Extended Colliery. He became a cricketer, first-grade footballer and militant socialist trade union leader. He was a councillor of Cessnock Shire from January until October 1914 and was the first president of the

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from 1915 until 1922.

Political career

Baddeley was the Labor Party member for

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from 1922 to 1927 and member for Cessnock from 1927 until 1949. He was Secretary for Mines and Minister for Labour and Industry in the first (June 1925 to October 1927) and second

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governments (November 1930 to May 1932). He supported Lang during the Labor factionalism of the 1930s, but he supported McKell's election as leader in 1939. He was Deputy Premier, Colonial Secretary and Secretary for Mines in the McKell and McGirr governments from May 1941 until his retirement in September 1947, Minister for National Emergency Services from June 1944 to his retirement and Minister for Labour and Industry and Social Welfare from October 1947 to March 1948. ''Fauna'' As a keen student of natural history, he is also credited as the instigator of the ''Fauna Protection Act'' 1948 (NSW). He was acting Premier from August to December 1948, when he had a heart attack. Baddeley was chairman of State Coal Mine Authority from his retirement until his death of

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at St Luke's Hospital in the Sydney suburb of

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, survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baddeley, John Marcus Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Australian trade unionists Deputy Premiers of New South Wales English emigrants to Australia Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly New South Wales local councillors People from Burslem 1881 births 1953 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians Socialism