Patrick McMahon Glynn (1855-1931) Albert John Gould (1847-1936)

Member for 1901-1903 Senator for New South Wales 1901-1917 Member for Angas (South Australia) 1903-1919

orn in Gort, Galway, Ireland, “Paddy” Glynn was elected to represent South lbert Gould was born in Sydney, Although Gould was a supporter of the BGlynn migrated to Melbourne in 1880, Australia in the House of Representatives ANew South Wales. He was admitted as a Hughes Government, he was not endorsed having established himself as a lawyer in as a Freetrader at the first federal election solicitor in 1870 and practised in both Sydney by the Nationalist Party for the election of Ireland and England during the 1870s. in 1901. He was a minister in the Deakin, and Singleton. He was a member of the 1917, and did not stand for the Senate. He set himself up in legal practice in Cook and Hughes governments and New South Wales Legislative Assembly In retirement, he focused on his business Kapunda, South Australia, and , represented the seat of Angas until his 1882-98, serving as a minister on two and community interests. Gould was knighted became editor of the Kapunda Herald, and defeat in 1919. occasions. A supporter of Sir Henry Parkes in 1908. involved himself in political issues in South and the concept of federation, Gould opposed Australia. He was elected to the South An eloquent speaker with a comprehensive the Constitution Bill in 1898 believing that Australian House of Assembly in 1887. knowledge of literature, Glynn was a life-long New South Wales was not receiving adequate supporter of Irish Home Rule. recognition. Glynn was elected to represent South Australia at the Australasian Federal At the first federal election in 1901 Gould was Convention of 1897-98. A member of the elected to represent New South Wales as a Judiciary Committee which worked on the Freetrader in the Senate. In 1907 following drafting of the Constitution Bill, Glynn’s Sir Richard Baker’s retirement, he was best-known contribution to the Constitution elected President of the Senate, a position is a reference to God in the preamble. which he held until 1910.

The state of South Australia did not divide into electoral divisions for the purposes of the first The state of Western Australia was also represented in the first Senate by: federal election. South Australia, as a whole, was also represented in the first House of Representatives by: James Thomas Walker Edward Davis Millen Sir John Langdon Bonython Frederick William Holder Egerton Charles Cameron Kingston Vaiben Louis Solomon Richard Edward O’Connor John Cash Neild Edward Pulsford