John Perry (13 July 1845 – 10 May 1922) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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; his father, Julius Perry, was a bank clerk. He attended public schools at

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and Fort Street, and in 1861 began working for Watkins and Leigh, an importing firm. By the 1870s he was a sugar cane grower, also running a store at Alstonville. On 13 November 1870 he married Susan McAuslan Alston, with whom he had a son. In 1889 he was elected to the

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for

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, belonging to the

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. He transferred to Ballina in 1894, back to Richmond in 1904, and to

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in 1913. During that time he served as Minister of Public Instruction, Labour and Industry (1899–1904), Colonial Secretary (1904),

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(1907–1908) and (1908–1910). After the collapse of the Protectionists' successor, the

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, in 1904, he joined the

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, along with most of his remaining party colleagues. Perry retired in 1920 and died at

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two years later, aged .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Perry, John 1845 births 1922 deaths Protectionist Party politicians Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly