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Place of Birth: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
About John Croft
- John William Croft (20 January 1871 – c.?1913) was an Australian politician.
- Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, he was educated in state schools before becoming an apprentice bootmaker.
- Moving to Western Australia in the 1890s, he was Secretary of the Coastal Trades and Labour Council.
- In 1903, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Western Australia.
- He retired in 1910.The circumstances surrounding Croft's death are unclear, and no death certificate registered for him has been located in Australia.
- Members of his family have variously recorded that he disappeared after heading off on a mysterious "mission" to Uruguay in 1913, but that he attended his mother's funeral in 1925 and was not listed as deceased on his father's 1929 death certificate.
- Another theory was that Croft committed suicide and this was covered up.
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