John Newlands (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Newlands (Australian politician)

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1864

Place of Birth: Nairnshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 20-May-1932

Profession: politician, civil servant, railway worker, trade unionist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About John Newlands (Australian politician)

  • Sir John Newlands (4 August 1864 – 20 May 1932), also known as John Newland, was a Scottish-born Australian politician.Born in Cawdor, Nairnshire, Newlands was the son of Andrew Newlands, agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann, née Stunar.
  • Newlands was educated in Croy, Scotland before migrating to New South Wales, Australia in 1883.
  • He married Theresa Glassey on 27 February 1884 in Adelaide, and that year began to use Newland as his surname.
  • He became a railway worker, also in 1884, initially as a lamp cleaner and porter.
  • While a conductor on the Broken Hill express, he and a fellow-conductor developed a gambling system that so impressed a group of mining magnates that they bankrolled a trip for the two to Monte Carlo.
  • Fortune eluded them however, and they returned to Adelaide with a new respect for mathematics. He was elected chairman of the District Council of Terowie, when after 13 years he was obliged to resign from the railways.
  • He helped found in 1908 the Railway Officers' Association, a trade union of which he was appointed general secretary, a position he held until his resignation in 1913.In November 1906 Newland was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Labor member for Burra Burra.
  • In February 1912 he lost his marginal seat in the 1912 state election, but was elected to the Australian Senate in the 1913 federal election as a Labor Senator for South Australia.
  • He left the Labor Party in the 1916 split over conscription, joining the Nationalist Party.
  • He served as Chairman of Committees from 1923 to 1926.
  • On 1 July 1926, he was appointed President of the Senate, succeeding Thomas Givens.
  • He held the presidency until 13 August 1929, when he was succeeded by Walter Kingsmill.
  • He was knighted in 1927, and reverted his name to Newlands.
  • He had several periods of convalescence due to ill health and died in 1932 in Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia, while his term was still unexpired.
  • No appointment was made.

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