John Lynch was an Australia

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n politician. Born in Young, New South Wales

Young, New South Wales

-Demographics:On census night, 7 August 2001, there were 6,821 people counted in Young. There were 238 people who identified as being of Indigenous origin in the 2001 Census...

, he received a primary education before becoming a road contractor and dam sinker. He also selected land at Thuddingra. In 1914, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives

Australian House of Representatives

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 as the Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 member for Werriwa

Division of Werriwa

The Division of Werriwa is a Federal Electoral Division for the Australian House of Representatives.The name Werriwa derives from a local Aboriginal name for Lake George, which was located in the division when it was established in 1900. The division was one of the original 75 divisions first...

, defeating Liberal

Commonwealth Liberal Party

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 MP Alfred Conroy

Alfred Conroy

Alfred Hugh Beresford Conroy was an Australian politician. Born in Winchelsea, Victoria, he was educated at Hawthorn Grammar School in Melbourne. Becoming a bank clerk and surveyor, he moved to Goulburn in New South Wales in 1883. In 1893 he became a barrister, and he was an alderman on Goulburn...

. Lynch was one of the Labor members who followed Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Australia

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 Billy Hughes

Billy Hughes

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

 when he left the Labor Party in 1916 and formed the Nationalist Party

Nationalist Party of Australia

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 with the Liberals

Commonwealth Liberal Party

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. Lynch won re-election as a Nationalist in 1917 but was defeated in 1919 by Labor's Hubert Lazzarini

Hubert Lazzarini

Hubert Peter Lazzarini was an Australian politician, holding the division of Werriwa as the Australian Labor Party member for most years from 1919 until his death....

. He became a farmer and rural writer before his death in 1941.