John Livingston (19 September 1857 – 4 September 1935) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the

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from 1899 to 1906, and a member of the

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from 1906 to 1922. Livingston was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia and educated privately at the family home of Curratum. He worked on farms in

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and Victoria and in 1880 explored the Gascoyne River area of northern

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. He married Eliza Dunn Paltridge on 11 June 1884 at the home of her father

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at Compton, South Australia. In 1898, he auction house in Mount Gambier and he became mayor of Mount Gambier in 1899. In 1899, Livingston was elected as the member for Victoria in the

and retained the seat after it was renamed to Victoria and Albert in 1902 but lost the seat in 1906. Livingston won the federal seat of

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at the 1906 election for the

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. From 1909 to 1916 he was a member for the

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, and from 1916 to 1922 he was a member for the Nationalist Party of Australia. He was a consistent opponent of the construction of

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. Livingston died in

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in 1935 (aged77), survived by his wife, five daughters and two sons.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Livingston, John Free Trade Party members of the Parliament of Australia Commonwealth Liberal Party members of the Parliament of Australia Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Barker Members of the Australian House of Representatives Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Mayors of places in South Australia Explorers of Western Australia 1857 births 1935 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians