Members of the Australian Senate, 1913–1914

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...

from 1913 to 1914. Half of its members were elected at the 13 April 1910 election

Australian federal election, 1910

Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

and had terms starting on 1 July 1910 and finishing on 30 June 1916; the other half were elected at the 31 May 1913 election

Australian federal election, 1913

Federal elections were held in Australia on 31 May 1913. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia Andrew Fisher was defeated by the opposition Commonwealth Liberal...

and had terms starting on 1 July 1913 and finishing on 30 June 1919. In fact their terms were terminated prematurely with the calling of 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...

as a double dissolution

Double dissolution

A double dissolution is a procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks between the House of Representatives and the Senate....

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....	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	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
John Clemons John Clemons John Singleton Clemons was an Australian politician.Clemons was elected to the Australian Senate for Tasmania at the first federal election in 1901, representing the Free Trade Party—it was later renamed the Anti-Socialist Party and in 1909 it became part of the Commonwealth Liberal Party...	Liberal	Tasmania	1901–1914
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	Western Australia	1901–1923
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	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	New South Wales	1901–1917
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	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
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	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	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	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
James McColl James McColl (Australian politician) James Hiers McColl was an Australian politician.McColl was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, the son of Hugh McColl, and migrated with his family to Australia in 1853, but his mother died before they landed in Melbourne. McColl was educated at the Model School, Sandhurst and for a...	Liberal	Victoria	1907–1914
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
Gregor McGregor Gregor McGregor The Hon. Gregor McGregor was an influential Australian politician and trade union leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....	ALP	South Australia	1901–1914
Hon Edward Millen Edward Millen Edward Davis Millen was an Australian journalist and politician who served as the first Minister for Repatriation....	Liberal	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	South Australia	1913–1932
Charles Oakes Charles Oakes Charles William Oakes was an Australian politician. Born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, he was educated at state schools in Sydney, after which he became a jeweller and watchmaker. He was involved in local politics as a member of Paddington Council...	Liberal	New South Wales	1913–1914
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	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
Arthur Rae Arthur Rae Arthur Rae was a New Zealand-born Australian politician. Born in Christchurch, he received a primary education at Blenheim before migrating to Australia in 1878, where he became a miner, shearer and journalist. He was secretary of the New South Wales Shearers' Union during the 1890 strike...	ALP	New South Wales	1910–1914, 1929–1935
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	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	South Australia	1913–1923
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	South Australia	1904–1917
Hon Harry Turley	ALP	Queensland	1904–1917

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