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Biography Frederick William Holder Frederick William Holder (1850-1909) William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) Member for South Australia 1901-1903 Member for West Sydney (New South Wales) 1901-1917 Member for Wakefield (South Australia) 1903-1909 Member for Bendigo (Victoria) 1917-1922 Member for North Sydney (New South Wales) 1922-1949 Member for Bradfield (New South Wales) 1949-1952 rederick Holder was born in Happy Valley, of Representatives. Although excluded from orn in Pimlico, London, England, “Billy” became Prime Minister in 1915, and continued FSouth Australia. Educated by his father the Barton ministry, Holder was elected BHughes migrated to Queensland in 1884. in office when expelled from the Australian and at the Collegiate School of St Peter, Speaker of the House of Representatives at After roving for a few years, Hughes settled Labor Party in 1916 as a result of his advocacy Adelaide, Holder became a teacher and taught the first meeting of that House in May 1901. in Sydney, where he became involved in the of conscription for military service. Supported at a number of schools, becoming headmaster Holder won universal respect as a firm and labour movement. He also spent a period in by members of both houses who followed him of the Kooringa Public School at Burra Burra, impartial Speaker. He worked closely with western New South Wales as an organiser of out of the Labor Party, he governed as leader South Australia, in 1875. He later became a Sir Richard Chaffey Baker, the first President the Amalgamated Shearers Union and began of the National Labor Party then the store manager, town clerk and first managing of the Senate, in the adaptation of the a long association with the Waterside Workers Nationalist Party, until 1923. During and editor of the Burra Record. In 1885 he was practices of Westminster and the colonial Union. In 1894 Hughes was elected as a Labor immediately after the First World War Hughes Mayor of Burra. Parliaments to the needs of the new representative to the New South Wales provided a strong presence for Australia in the Commonwealth Parliament. Believing that Legislative Assembly. He qualified as a Imperial War Cabinet, and at peace In 1887 Holder was elected senior member the Speaker should not be associated with any lawyer in 1903. conferences. After he ceased to be Prime for Burra in the South Australian House of party, Holder was returned as the member for Minister Hughes was minister in successive Assembly and held the seat until 1901. He Wakefield, South Australia in 1903 as an In 1901, Hughes was elected for the Labor governments formed by a range of parties held a number of senior offices including Independent. He was knighted in 1902. Party to represent the seat of West Sydney and coalitions, and finally became a member Premier and Treasurer. In 1897 Holder was in the House of Representatives. He of the Liberal Party. elected to represent South Australia at the On 23 July 1909, while the House was subsequently represented Bendigo, Victoria Australasian Federal Convention of 1897-98 considering legislation, Holder, who had (1917-22), North Sydney (1922-49) and Hughes was the longest-serving member of and South Australia’s eventual acceptance of admitted to being disturbed by the ill feeling Bradfield, New South Wales (1949-52). the first Parliament. At the time of his death, the Constitution Bill can be partly attributed between the political parties, was heard to He was Minister for External Affairs in in office, in 1952, he had been a member of to Holder’s efforts. exclaim “Dreadful! Dreadful!”, and fell to the Watson’s first Labor Government and the Commonwealth Parliament for 51 years floor. He died later that day from a cerebral Attorney-General under Fisher. Hughes and 7 months. In March 1901 Holder was elected to haemorrhage without recovering represent South Australia in the House consciousness. The state of South Australia did not divide into electoral divisions for the purposes of the first federal election. South Australia, as a whole, was also represented in the first House of The electorate of West Sydney was named after its locality. The settlement of Sydney was Representatives by: named after Lord Sydney. Sir John Langdon Bonython Egerton Lee Batchelor Alexander Poynton Patrick McMahon Glynn Charles Cameron Kingston Vaiben Louis Solomon.
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