William Carpenter (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Carpenter (Australian politician)

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1863

Place of Birth: Stratton St Margaret, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1930

Profession: politician, boilermaker, supervisor

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About William Carpenter (Australian politician)

  • William Henry Carpenter (5 April 1863 – 11 September 1930) was an Australian politician.
  • He held seats in three parliaments: the South Australian Legislative Assembly, the Australian House of Representatives and the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. William Carpenter was born in Stratton, Wiltshire, England in 1863.
  • He was educated at Swindon, and it was there that he took an apprenticeship as a boilermaker on the Great Western Railway.
  • In 1886, he emigrated to Victoria, Australia, where he found work in locomotive construction at the Phoenix Foundry in Ballarat.
  • On 3 April 1889, he married Alice Catherine Ross. In 1891, Carpenter moved to Gawler, South Australia, where he spent the next five years as foreman of Jas Martin & Co.
  • During this time he developed an interest in public affairs, becoming active in the Barossa Reform League, which agitated for land reform.
  • In 1896, he was elected to the South Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Encounter Bay.
  • Two years later he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Old Age Pensions.
  • He held the seat of Encounter Bay until the election of 1902, at which he unsuccessfully contested the seat of Alexandra. Carpenter moved to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1903.
  • He became a member of the Fremantle Trades Hall Association, and president of the Transcontinental Railway League.
  • In December 1903, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives seat of Fremantle as a Labor candidate.
  • He would hold the seat until his defeat in the election of December 1906.
  • After his defeat he moved into a secretarial and agency business, and was also a journalist, working as editor of the briefly-reestablished Fremantle Herald.After losing his federal seat, Carpenter turned to state politics, standing unsuccessfully for the Western Australian Legislative Council seat of West Province in May 1908.
  • He stood once again for the federal seat of Fremantle in the election of April 1910, but was again unsuccessful.
  • In October 1911, however, he won the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Fremantle.
  • In 1917 he joined John Scaddan in leaving the anti-conscription Labor party for the pro-conscription National Labor movement.
  • He contested the election of September 1917 under this banner, and was defeated by the new Labor candidate.
  • He then left politics, going to Melbourne and then Sydney.
  • On 11 September 1930, his dead body was found floating in the Hacking River at Sutherland, New South Wales.
  • He was buried at Rookwood Cemetery.

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