William Senior (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Senior (politician)

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1850

Place of Birth: Holmfirth, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 22-Nov-1926

Profession: politician, shopkeeper

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About William Senior (politician)

  • William Senior (9 February 1850 – 22 November 1926) was an English-born Australian politician.
  • He was an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1904 to 1912.
  • He was then a member of the Australian Senate from 1913 to 1922; he was first elected as a Labor Senator but left the party in the 1916 Labor split over conscription and thereafter represented the Nationalist Party. Senior was born in Holmfirth in Yorkshire, England.
  • His family migrated to South Australia when he was five years old, settling in Willunga before relocating to Mount Gambier in 1858.
  • He was a storekeeper's assistant before entering the Primitive Methodist ministry and serving as minister from 1873 until 1883, with circuits at Moonta Mines, Two Wells, Woodside, Kapunda and Naracoorte.
  • In 1883 he left the ministry and worked as a storekeeper at Mount Gambier, although he remained a lay Methodist preacher for the rest of his life.
  • He was described as a Past Grand of the Independent Order of Oddfellows and was a founder of their Orroroo lodge in 1880.
  • Later, at Mount Gambier, he was involved in local debating societies in Mount Gambier and was president of the Democratic Society there.
  • In 1902, he moved to Coonawarra, where he became a fruitgrower.He won a 1904 by-election for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Victoria and Albert following the death of Andrew Dods Handyside.
  • He held the seat until his defeat at the 1912 state election.In 1913, he was elected to the Australian Senate as an Australian Labor Party Senator for South Australia.
  • He left the Labor Party in the wake of the 1916 split over conscription, joining the Nationalist Party.
  • He vigorously supported conscription but denied that he had been disloyal to the Labor Party in doing so.
  • Defeated in 1922, Senior died in 1926.

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