Andrew Lysaght Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Mount Ousley, New South Wales, Australia
About Andrew Lysaght Jr.
- Andrew Augustus Lysaght (8 August 1873 – 3 May 1933) was an Australian politician.
- He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1925 until 1933, representing the electorate of Bulli.
- He served as Attorney-General of New South Wales under Jack Lang in 1927 and 1930-31. Lysaght was born at Mount Ousley near Wollongong, the son of politician Andrew Lysaght, senior.
- He was educated in Wollongong before attending Newington College (1888–1890) and the University of Sydney.
- He undertook articles in 1891, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1896.
- He established a reputation as a leading industrial lawyer, practicing in both Sydney and Wollongong.
- He was elected to the North Illawarra Municipal Council from 1900 to 1902, serving as mayor in 1902.
- It was at this time that his most prominent moment as a lawyer occurred, representing the miners before the Royal Commission into the Mount Kembla mining disaster.
- He continued to hold a successful legal career, and in 1923 was called to the bar. Lysaght entered state politics in 1925, when he defeated incumbent Nationalist Mark Morton for the final seat in multi-member Wollondilly.
- He was briefly appointed Attorney-General in 1927, during the last months of the Lang government.
- In 1927, following the abolition of the multi-member system, he contested and won the recreated seat of Illawarra, defeating sitting MLA Brian Doe. A redistribution of the region in 1930 saw him contest and win the new seat of Bulli, and Lang's return to power saw him again appointed Attorney-General, despite lacking support within the Labor caucus.
- He clashed heavily with ideological rivals within Labor, and slowly lost Lang's support; he had also become increasingly irascible, associated with his declining health as a result of a disease of the nervous system.
- He resigned from the ministry in 1931, and though he was re-elected in 1932, he suffered from continually worsening health.
- He died at Campbelltown in 1933 while still in office, and was buried in the small town of Appin.
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