Members of the Australian Senate, 1914–1917

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate
Australian Senate
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from 1914 to 1917. The 5 September 1914 election

Australian federal election, 1914

Federal elections were held in Australia on 5 September 1914. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and all 36 seats in the Senate were up for election in a double dissolution...

was a double dissolution

Double dissolution

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called by Prime Minister of Australia

Prime Minister of Australia

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Joseph Cook

Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG was an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia. Born as Joseph Cooke and working in the coal mines of Silverdale, Staffordshire during his early life, he emigrated to Lithgow, New South Wales during the late 1880s, and became General-Secretary of the...

in an attempt to gain control of the Senate. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives

Australian House of Representatives

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, and all 36 seats in the Senate

Australian Senate

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were up for election. The incumbent Commonwealth Liberal Party

Commonwealth Liberal Party

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was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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led by Andrew Fisher

Andrew Fisher

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, who announced with the outbreak of World War I

World War I

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during the campaign that under a Labor Government, Australia would "stand beside the mother country to help and defend her to the last man and the last shilling."

In accordance with section 13 of the Constitution terms for Senators was taken to commence on 1 July 1914. Half the Senators representing the States were allocated terms finishing on 30 June 1917 and the other half on 30 June 1920.

In September 1916, 24 Labor members of the House of Representatives and the Senate—including Prime Minister Billy Hughes

Billy Hughes

William Morris "Billy" Hughes, CH, KC, MHR , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923....

—were expelled for their support of conscription

Conscription

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during World War I

World War I

and later formed the National Labor Party

National Labor Party

The National Labor Party was the name used by the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes for himself and his followers after he was expelled from the Australian Labor Party in November 1916 over his pro-conscription stance in relation to World War I...

, which merged with the Commonwealth Liberal Party

Commonwealth Liberal Party

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in February 1917 to form the Nationalist Party of Australia

Nationalist Party of Australia

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Senator	Party	State	Years in Office
Thomas Bakhap Thomas Bakhap Thomas Jerome Kingston Bakhap was an Australian politician. He was born in Ballaarat, Victoria, the adoptive son of a Chinese immigrant, Bak Hap. He received no formal education but became a shopworker, and was later a tin miner at Lottah, Tasmania. In 1909, he was elected to the Tasmanian House...	Liberal Commonwealth Liberal Party The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation.... /Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...	Tasmania Tasmania Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...	1913–1923
Stephen Barker Stephen Barker (Australian politician) Stephen Barker was an English-born Australian politician. Born in London, he received a primary education before becoming a tailor. He migrated to Australia where he became an organiser of the Tramways Union. He served as secretary of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council from 1901 to 1910...	ALP Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Victoria Victoria (Australia) Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....	1910–1920, 1923–1924
John Barnes John Barnes (Australian politician) John Barnes was a union official and Australian federal politician representing the Labor Party.-Early life:...	ALP	Victoria	1913–1920, 1923–1935
Albert Blakey Albert Blakey Albert Edward Howarth Blakey was an Australian politician. Born in Balmoral, Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a clerk, and an official with the Clerks' Union. Blakely also served as secretary of the Hamilton branch of the ALP and a member of the board of directors of the...	ALP	Victoria	1910–1917
Richard Buzacott Richard Buzacott Richard Buzacott , Australian politician, was a Member of the Australian Senate from 1910 to 1923.Commonly known as Dick Buzacott, he was born at Emu Flat, Clare, South Australia on 7 September 1867...	ALP/Nationalist	Western Australia Western Australia Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...	1910–1923
Hugh de Largie Hugh de Largie Hugh de Largie was an inaugural member of the Australian Senate in Western Australia for the Australian Labor Party, National Labor Party, and Nationalist Party of Australia from 1901 to 1922.- Early life :...	ALP/Nationalist	Western Australia	1901–1923
John Earle John Earle (Australian politician) John Earle was an Australian politician and the first Labor Premier of Tasmania.- Early life :Born into a farming family of Cornish descent in Bridgewater, Tasmania, Earle left home at 17 to work as a blacksmith's apprentice in a Hobart foundry...	Nationalist	Tasmania	1917–1923
Myles Ferricks Myles Ferricks Myles Aloysius Ferricks was an Australian politician. Born in Maryborough, Queensland, he was educated there at Christian Brothers School before becoming a bush worker, teacher and journalist, and editor of the Bowen Independent. In 1909, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as...	ALP	Queensland Queensland Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...	1913–1920
Edward Findley Edward Findley Edward Findley was an Australian politician and publisher.Findley was born in Bendigo, Victoria and was apprenticed as a compositor on the Bendigo Independent before moving to Melbourne in the early 1880s to work on the Daily Telegraph, which closed in 1892...	ALP	Victoria	1904–1917, 1923–1929
Albert Gardiner Albert Gardiner Albert Gardiner was an Australian Labor Party politician. He held the distinction of being the party's sole Senator between 1920 and 1922....	ALP	New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...	1910–1926, 1928
Hon Thomas Givens Thomas Givens Thomas Givens was an Irish-born Australian politician. Born in County Tipperary, he received a primary education before migrating to Australia in 1882. He became a bush worker and miner in Queensland, and was secretary of the Queensland Miners' Union, as well as proprietor of the Cairns Daily Times...	ALP/Nationalist	Queensland	1904–1928
Hon Albert Gould Albert Gould Sir Albert John Gould was an Australian politician and solicitor who served as the second President of the Australian Senate....	Liberal/Nationalist	New South Wales	1901–1917
John Grant John Grant (Australian politician) John Grant was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Abernethy, he received a primary education before becoming a stonemason. Migrating to Australia in 1880, he became Secretary of the Stonemasons' Union and a founding member of the New South Wales Labor Party...	ALP	New South Wales	1914–1920, 1923–1928
Robert Guthrie Robert Guthrie (Australian politician) Robert Storrie Guthrie was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was educated at Glasgow before becoming a seaman and migrating to Australia in 1887. He was South Australian Secretary and Federal President of the Seamens' Union before entering the South Australian Legislative Council as a...	ALP/Nationalist	South Australia South Australia South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...	1904–1921
James Guy	ALP	Tasmania	1914–1920
George Henderson George Henderson (Australian politician) Christopher George Henderson was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Clackmannanshire, he received a primary education before migrating to Australia in 1885. He was a coal miner in New South Wales and general secretary of the Illawarra Miners' Union...	ALP/Nationalist	Western Australia	1904–1923
Hon John Keating John Keating (Australian politician) John Henry Keating was an Australian politician.Keating was born in Hobart and educated at Officer College, Hobart, Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney and the University of Tasmania where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1896...	Liberal/Nationalist	Tasmania	1901–1923
James Long James Long (Australian politician) James Joseph Long was an Australian politician. Born at The Fort, Tasmania, he received a primary education before becoming a miner, and later President of the Federated Mining Enginedrivers' Association. In 1903 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the Labor member for Lyell,...	ALP	Tasmania	1910–1918
Patrick Lynch Patrick Lynch (Australian politician) Patrick Joseph Lynch was an Australian politician.Lynch was born in Skeark, County Meath, Ireland and educated at Cormeen National School and Bailieborough Model School, County Cavan. He migrated to Queensland in 1886 and cut railway sleepers near Charleville and then travelled to the Croydon...	ALP/Nationalist	Western Australia	1907–1938
William Maughan William Maughan William John Ryott Maughan was an English-born Australian politician. Born in London, he was educated at Leeds Grammar School before migrating to Australia in 1884, where he became a public servant and journalist, at one point sitting on Toowong Council. In 1898 he was elected to the Queensland...	ALP	Queensland	1913–1920
Allan McDougall Allan McDougall Allan McDougall was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he received a primary education before becoming an apprentice boilermaker. He worked on the dockyards and became secretary of the Boilermakers' Union. In 1910, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a member of the Labor Party. He...	ALP	New South Wales	1910–1920, 1922–1924
Andrew McKissock Andrew McKissock Andrew Nelson McKissock was an Australian politician. Born in Ballaarat, Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming an apprentice printer. He was an official with the Typographical Association before becoming President of the Ballaarat Trades and Labour Council...	ALP	Victoria	1914–1917
Hon Edward Millen Edward Millen Edward Davis Millen was an Australian journalist and politician who served as the first Minister for Repatriation....	Liberal/Nationalist	New South Wales	1901–1923
John Mullan John Mullan (Australian politician) John Mullan was an Irish-born Australian politician. Born in Dublin, where he was educated, he migrated to Australia in 1889, becoming a clerk, railway worker and miner. He was an organiser of the Charters Towers Miners' Union and the Australian Workers' Union...	ALP	Queensland	1913–1917
Ted Needham Ted Needham Edward "Ted" Needham was an English-born Australian politician. Born in Lancashire, he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a coal miner and shipyard worker. He migrated to Australia in 1900, becoming a boilermaker in Fremantle, Western Australia...	ALP	Western Australia	1907–1920, 1923–1929
John Newlands John Newlands (Australian politician) Sir John Newlands , formerly John Newland, was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Nairnshire, he was educated in Scotland before migrating to Australia in 1883, where he became a railway worker...	ALP/Nationalist	South Australia	1913–1932
David O'Keefe David O'Keefe (Australian politician) David John O'Keefe was an Australian politician. Born in Longford, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools before becoming a farm worker and miner. He was involved in the labour movement as a journalist and an organiser of the Australian Workers' Union...	ALP	Tasmania	1901–1906, 1910–1914, 1914–1920, 1922–1925 (HoR Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years.... )
James O'Loghlin James O'Loghlin (Australian politician) James Vincent O'Loghlin was an Australian politician. Born in Gumeracha, South Australia, he was educated at the Classical and Commercial Academy in Adelaide before becoming a farmer and wheat buyer. Later a journalist and owner of country newspapers, he was active in Irish nationalist organisations...	ALP	South Australia	1907, 1913–1920, 1923–1925
Hon George Pearce George Pearce Sir George Foster Pearce KCVO was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia....	ALP/Nationalist	Western Australia	1901–1938
Rudolph Ready Rudolph Ready Rudolph Keith Ready was an Australian politician. Born in Tasmania, he received a primary education before becoming a storekeeper. In 1910, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Tasmania. He resigned his place in 1917, leading to the appointment, only hours later, of...	ALP	Tasmania	1910–1917
James Rowell James Rowell James Rowell was an English-born Australian politician. Born in Cambridge, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated in state schools. He served in the military 1877-1917 before becoming aide-de-camp to the Governor-General. He was a horticulturalist, and served on West Torrens Council...	Nationalist	South Australia	1917–1923
Edward Russell Edward Russell (Australian politician) Edward John Russell was an Australian politician.Russell was born in Warrnambool, Victoria and educated at Newport State School and St Mary's Catholic School, Williamstown...	ALP/Nationalist	Victoria	1907–1925
William Senior William Senior William Senior was an English-born Australian politician. Born in Yorkshire, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at state schools in Mount Gambier, South Australia. He became a shopkeeper and Methodist minister...	ALP/Nationalist	South Australia	1913–1923
John Shannon John Shannon (Australian politician) John Wallace Shannon was an Australian politician. Born in Angaston, South Australia, where he was educated, he became a farmer on the Yorke Peninsula and an auctioneer. He served on Maitland Council, of which he was mayor. In 1896, he was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for...	Liberal/Nationalist	South Australia	1912–1913, 1914–1920
James Stewart James Stewart (Australian politician) James Charles Stewart was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Morayshire, he received a primary education after which he worked as a farm and railway worker. In 1888 he migrated to Australia, where he became involved in the unions movement...	ALP	Queensland	1901–1917
William Story William Story (Australian politician) William Harrison Story was an Australian politician. Born in Adelaide, he was educated at state schools before becoming a stonemason and bricklayer. He served as President of the Operative Masons and Bricklayers Society and the Adelaide Trades and Labour Council, and was mayor of Norwood and...	ALP/Nationalist	South Australia	1904–1917
Hon Harry Turley	ALP	Queensland	1904–1917
David Watson David Watson (New South Wales politician) David Watson was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Lanarkshire, he migrated as a child to Australia, where he received a primary education. He became a miner in Newcastle and President of the Northern District Miners' Union. In 1914, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor...	ALP	New South Wales	1914–1917

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