John Charles Lucas Fitzpatrick (15 February 1862 – 7 August 1932) was an Australian politician and journalist.
Early life
Fitzpatrick was born in
Moama
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in the
Riverina
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region of
New South Wales
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, but his family moved to
Windsor
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in 1869. He was educated at a catholic school and he was apprenticed to the former ''Australian'' newspaper's Windsor office at 14. He was a
compositor on the former ''
Melbourne Punch
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'' at 18 and subsequently worked on papers in
Gunnedah
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,
Narrabri
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,
Walgett
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In the 2 ...
and
Parramatta
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and
Goulburn
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. In January 1886 he married Agnes Clare Kelly. In about 1888, he established the
Windsor and Richmond Gazette
''Windsor and Richmond Gazette'', later published as the ''Hawkesbury Gazette'', was a weekly English language compact format newspaper published in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
History
First published on 11 July 1888 by John Charles ...
and in 1905 he bought the ''
Molong
Molong is a small town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, in Cabonne Shire.
History
The name Molong comes from the Aboriginal word for 'all rocks'.
William Lee of Kelso is said to have had cattle in the area by 1819. ...
Argus'', which he sold in 1907.
Political career
Fitzpatrick was elected as the member for
Rylstone in the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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at the
election in July 1895, representing the
Free Trade Party
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. While the election was found to be invalid,
he won the subsequent
by-election in October 1895. He held the seat until 1904, when he stood unsuccessfully for
Northumberland
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at the
election in August 1904. He was the
Anti-Socialist Party
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candidate for the
Federal seat of
Calare at the
1906 election, but was unsuccessful. In 1907, he won the state seat of
Orange
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as a
Liberal
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and held it until 1930, except for the period of
proportional representation
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between 1920 and 1927, when he was one of the members for
Bathurst.
He joined
Holman Holman may refer to:
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's
Nationalist government as
Secretary for Mines
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In 1929, the department took over responsibility for petroleum.
In 1940, the department was divided with Geoffrey ...
from November 1916 and
Colonial Treasurer
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from October 1918 until its defeat by
John Storey Labor Party in April 1920. He was Secretary for Mines and
Minister for Local Government on 20 December 1921 in
George Fuller's seven-hour government and again between 1922 and 1925.
Fitzpatrick retired from politics in 1930.
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Fitzpatrick died in the Sydney suburb of ]Roseville, New South Wales
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on , survived by a son and daughter.[
]
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Free Trade Party politicians
Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Australian journalists
1862 births
1932 deaths
Treasurers of New South Wales