James Francis Maxwell was a politician in

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, Australia. He was the mayor of the

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and a member of the

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for

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Early life

James Francis Maxwell was born in 1862 in

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, Ireland, the son of Samuel Maxwell and his wife Matilda (née Stoops). On 23 July 1890 he married Alice Annie Letitia Davies at St Peter's Church at West End,

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, the daughter of John Davies, the engineer and manager at the South Brisbane Gas Company who designed the (now heritage-listed) West End Gasworks.

Politics

Maxwell was a member of the

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and its chairman in 1904 and 1905. Maxwell was the mayor of the City of Brisbane from 1920 to 1921. Maxwell was elected to Queensland Legislative Assembly on the 9 October 1920, for Toowong as a member of the National Party. He was re-elected on 15 May 1923 as a member for the

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and then re-elected on 8 May 1926 as a member of

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. He did not contest the election of 2 April 1938.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maxwell, James Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1862 births 1941 deaths National Party (Queensland, 1917) members of the Parliament of Queensland Colony of Queensland people Irish emigrants to colonial Australia