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coal mines before going to sea with the

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around 1902, eventually settling in

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in 1909. He became a diver and mariner, and in 1918 married Olive Elizabeth Harland, with whom he had a daughter. In 1924 he came to

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with a dredge and was employed by the Maritime Services Board. Long involved in the Labor Party and the union movement, he was state secretary of the Dredge and Maritime Service Employees Association from 1939 to 1957. From 1943 to 1962 he was a Labor member of the

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. Williams died in Sydney in 1962.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Samuel 1878 births 1962 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council British emigrants to Australia