John Braidwood Dooley was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician who was elected to the Australian Senate

Australian Senate

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Dooley was born at Tumbarumba, New South Wales

Tumbarumba, New South Wales

Tumbarumba is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, about 500 km southwest of Sydney. Tumbarumba is located within the Riverina region and more specifically on the South West Slopes at the western edge of the Snowy Mountains. At the 2006 Census of Population and Housing, people lived...

 and educated at Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga, New South Wales

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 Superior Public School and at Courabyra, but left school early to become a shearer and miner. From 1901 to 1904 he was as an organizer of the Rural Workers' Union. In 1910 when he was a labourer on railways in Sydney

Sydney

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, he helped establish the Railway Workers' and General Labourers' Association, which he helped merge into the Australian Workers' Union

Australian Workers' Union

The Australian Workers' Union is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and mining industries in the 1880s, and currently has approximately 135,000 members...

 in 1916. He later worked as a foreman in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area

Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area

The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area is geographically located within the Riverina area of New South Wales was created to control and divert the flow of local river and creek systems for the purpose of food production...

 and on Burrinjuck Dam

Burrinjuck Dam

Burrinjuck Dam is a high, concrete gravity dam on the Murrumbidgee River approximately 60 km from Yass, New South Wales, Australia. The Yass and Goodradigbee Rivers flow into the dam. The dam divides the upper and lower catchment of the Murrumbidgee and is the headwater storage for the...

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Dooley ran for Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 unsuccessfully for Senate at the 1925 election

Australian federal election, 1925

Federal elections were held in Australia on 14 November 1925. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 22 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

, but succeeded at the 1928 election

Australian federal election, 1928

Federal elections were held in Australia on 17 November 1928. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

. He was deputy leader of the Senate from August to October 1929 and from February to August 1932. He was appointed Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Works and Railways in March 1931 in the Scullin Ministry

Scullin Ministry

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. He remained a supporter of James Scullin

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James Henry Scullin , Australian Labor politician and the ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia.-Early life:Scullin was...

 rather than Jack Lang

Jack Lang (Australian politician)

John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...

 during the Labor split over the fiscal policy required to deal with the Great Depression

Great Depression in Australia

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. As a result he lost his seat in the Senate at the September 1934 election

Australian federal election, 1934

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, partly because he lost Australian Workers' Union endorsement.

Dooley returned to work as a works supervisor and died at St George Hospital

St George Hospital, Sydney

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, Kogarah

Kogarah, New South Wales

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, survived by his wife, six daughters and two of his three sons.