Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1919–1922
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between the 31 May 1919 election and the 10 June 1922 election. Nationalist MHA Walter Lee was the Premier of Tasmania throughout the term. In 1922, shortly before the election, a new Country Party emerged with several sitting Nationalist MPs joining it.
Name | Party | Division | Years in office |
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George Becker | Labor | Bass | 1912–1931; 1934–1941 |
James Belton | Labor | Darwin | 1909–1931 |
Ernest Blyth | Nationalist/Country | Wilmot | 1913–1925 |
John Cleary | Labor | Denison | 1916–1928 |
Robert Cosgrove | Labor | Denison | 1919–1922; 1925–1931; 1934–1958 |
David Dicker | Labor/Independent | Franklin | 1909–1922 |
William Dixon | Nationalist/Country | Franklin | 1919–1922 |
John Evans | Nationalist | Franklin | 1897–1937 |
Allan Guy | Labor | Bass | 1916–1929 |
John Hayes | Nationalist | Bass | 1913–1923 |
Herbert Hays | Nationalist | Wilmot | 1911–1922 |
Alexander Hean | Nationalist | Franklin | 1903–1913; 1916–1925 |
Edward Hobbs | Nationalist/Country | Darwin | 1916–1934 |
James Hurst | Labor | Darwin | 1910–1912; 1919–1926 |
Walter Lee | Nationalist | Wilmot | 1909–1946 |
Elliott Lewis | Nationalist | Denison | 1886–1903; 1909–1922 |
Joseph Lyons[1] | Labor | Wilmot | 1909–1929 |
John McPhee | Nationalist | Denison | 1919–1934; 1941–1946 |
Alexander Marshall | Nationalist | Bass | 1914–1925 |
James Newton | Nationalist | Bass | 1917–1928 |
James Ogden | Labor | Darwin | 1906–1922 |
Albert Ogilvie | Labor | Franklin | 1919–1939 |
Michael O'Keefe | Labor | Wilmot | 1912–1926 |
Herbert Payne[2] | Nationalist | Darwin | 1903–1920 |
Percy Pollard[2] | Nationalist | Darwin | 1917–1919; 1920–1922 |
George Pullen | Nationalist | Wilmot | 1912–1916; 1919–1922 |
Robert Sadler | Nationalist | Bass | 1900–1912; 1913–1922 |
William Sheridan | Labor | Denison | 1909–1913; 1914–1928 |
Robert Snowden | Nationalist | Denison | 1919–1924 |
Benjamin Watkins | Labor | Franklin | 1906–1917; 1919–1922; 1925–1934 |
Joshua Whitsitt | Independent/Country | Darwin | 1909–1922 |
Notes
[edit]- 1 Labor MHA for Wilmot, Joseph Lyons, resigned to contest the federal seat of Darwin at the 13 December 1919 election, and was unsuccessful. He was re-elected at the Wilmot by-election on 10 January 1920.
- 2 Nationalist MHA for Darwin, Herbert Payne, resigned in January 1920 to contest a vacancy on the Australian Senate. Nationalist candidate Percy Pollard was elected on 29 January 1920.
Sources
[edit]- Hughes, Colin A.; Graham, B. D. (1976). Voting for the South Australian, Western Australian and Tasmanian Lower Houses, 1890-1964. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-1334-6.
- Parliament of Tasmania (2006). The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856