Samuel Mauger (1857-1936) Edward Davis Millen (1860-1923) Member for Melbourne Ports (Victoria) 1901-1906 Senator for New South Wales 1901-1923 Member for Maribyrnong (Victoria) 1906-1910 amuel Mauger was born in Geelong, In 1901 Mauger was elected to represent orn in Kent, England, Edward Millen positions, including Minister for Defence SVictoria, and moved in 1874 to Melbourne, Melbourne Ports in the House of Bmigrated in about 1880 to New South 1913-14 and Acting Prime Minister in 1919. where he was apprenticed as a hat Representatives at the first federal election. Wales, and settled in the north-west, In 1914 Millen supervised the recruitment and manufacturer. A prohibitionist with strong After a redistribution in 1906 he was elected where he worked as a journalist, newspaper equipment of 20,000 troops for the Australian evangelical beliefs, Mauger devoted his life to the seat of Maribyrnong which he held until proprietor and land agent. He was a member Imperial Force. In his role as Minister for to social reform. As a member of a wide range his defeat in 1910. He was a minister without of both houses of the New South Wales Repatriation 1917-1923 he was responsible of associations, including the Metropolitan portfolio and Postmaster-General in the colonial Parliament. Millen was a follower for 160,000 returned servicemen being Fire Brigades Board (1891-1936), the Trades second Deakin Ministry. of George Reid, and varied between strong absorbed into the workforce and reclaiming Hall Council and the National Anti-Sweating support and criticism of federation. their civilian lives. In 1920 he attended the League of Victoria (which he helped found), first meeting of the League of Nations in and as a colonial and federal parliamentarian, In 1901 Millen was elected as a Freetrader Geneva, visited war graves, and reorganised he sought to improve conditions for working to represent New South Wales in the Senate Australia House in London. people. Mauger was elected to the seat of at the first federal election. Millen was one Footscray in the Victorian Legislative of the longest serving members of the first Millen died in 1923 while still in office. Assembly in 1899. Sympathetic to many of the Parliament and held a number of senior policies of the Labor Party, he did not join the Australian Labor Party but remained a radical liberal and protectionist throughout his political career. The state of Western Australia was also represented in the first Senate by: The electorate of Melbourne Ports was named after its locality. The settlement of Melbourne was named after Lord Melbourne, a Prime Minister of Britain. James Thomas Walker Albert John Gould Richard Edward O’Connor John Cash Neild Edward Pulsford.