James Thomas Tully (1877 – 15 October 1962) was an Australian politician. He was an
Australian Labor Party member of the
Australian House of Representatives from 1928 to 1931, representing the electorate of
Barton.
Tully was born in
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and was educated at the Grafton Superior Public School. He became a teacher in 1896, initially in Grafton for approximately three and a half years, and then being in charge of a series of one-teacher rural schools: Cockatoo Flat near
Walcha for two and a half years,
Yarrowyck for eight years, and
Lorne for two years. He resigned from the Education Department in September 1912 and took up farming and sawmilling at
Tullamore; he was also the secretary for the Tullamore branch of the
Australian Carriers Union
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during a pay dispute in 1914. He rejoined the Education Department in August 1923 as an assistant teacher at Hurstville Junior Technical School and taught there until his resignation to contest the federal election in 1928. Tully was also a vice-president of the
St George Rugby League Club. He was previously an unsuccessful candidate at the
1917 state election,
1919 federal election and
1922 state election.
In 1928, he was elected to the
Australian House of Representatives as the
Labor member for
Barton, defeating incumbent
Nationalist Thomas Ley, and was re-elected in 1929. He retained the seat until 1931, when he was challenged in the wake of the
1931 Labor split by both the
United Australia Party's
Albert Lane and
Lang Labor's
John Eldridge, the member for
Martin. Lane won the seat, making it the only time in Australian history that two sitting members have been simultaneously defeated for the same seat.
In 1961, he was living with his daughter in the
Sydney
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suburb of
Westmead.
He died in 1962.
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Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Barton
Members of the Australian House of Representatives
1877 births
1962 deaths
20th-century Australian politicians
People from Grafton, New South Wales
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