Members of the Australian Senate, 1923–1926

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 1923 to 1926. Half of its members were elected at the 13 December 1919 election

Australian federal election, 1919

Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 December 1919. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes defeated the opposition Australian...

and had terms starting on 1 July 1920 and finishing on 30 June 1926; the other half were elected at the 16 December 1922 election

Australian federal election, 1922

Federal elections were held in Australia on 16 December 1922. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes lost its majority...

and had terms starting on 1 July 1923 and finishing on 30 June 1929.

Senator	Party	State	Years in Office
Percy Abbott Percy Abbott (Australian politician) Percy Phipps Abbott CMG was an Australian soldier, politician and solicitor. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, to John William Abbott and Mary Ann, née Phipps, he was educated at The Hutchins School in Hobart and in 1889 was sent to Sydney as an assistant to a solicitor called Thomas Creswell. He was...	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...	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...	1913–19 (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.... ), 1925–29
David Andrew David Andrew David Andrew was an Australian politician. Born in Castlemaine, Victoria, he was educated at state schools before becoming an apprentice civil engineer. Later he was an auctioneer in Bendigo. He was elected to Bendigo City Council, and served as mayor in 1909, 1913 and 1920...	Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	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....	1925–1928
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...	Nationalist	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	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
Henry Barwell Henry Barwell Sir Henry Newman Barwell KCMG was the 28th Premier of South Australia.Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Barwell was educated at St Peter's College and Adelaide University, graduating in law...	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...	1925–1928
Benjamin Benny Benjamin Benny Benjamin Benny was an Australian politician. Born in Aldinga, South Australia, he was educated at state schools and then the University of Adelaide, becoming a solicitor. He was Vice-President of the South Australian Law Society, and served as mayor of Brighton Council...	Nationalist	South Australia	1920–1926
Charles Cox Charles Frederick Cox Major General Charles Frederick Cox CB, CMG, DSO, VD was an Australian Army colonel and temporary brigadier general in World War I. He retired in 1930 as an honorary major general.-Early life and career:...	Nationalist	New South Wales	1920–1938
Thomas Crawford Thomas Crawford (Australian politician) Thomas William Crawford was a long-serving member of the Australian Senate and joint Father of the Senate.-Early life:...	Nationalist	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...	1917–1947
Edmund Drake-Brockman	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...	1920–1926
Walter Duncan Walter Duncan Walter Leslie Duncan was an Australian politician. Born in Armidale, New South Wales, he was educated at state schools before becoming a clerk, and was President of the Labor Council of New South Wales in 1911. A member of the Labor Party, he joined the Nationalists in the wake of the 1916 split...	Nationalist	New South Wales	1920–1931
Harold Elliott Harold Edward Elliott Major General Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, VD was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War. Elliot also served as a Senator in the Australian parliament.-Early life:...	Nationalist	Victoria	1920–1931
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
Harry Foll	Nationalist	Queensland	1917–1947
George Foster George Foster (Australian politician) George Matthew Foster was an Australian politician. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was educated in Tasmania, where he became a motor mechanic. After serving in the military 1914-1916, he was secretary of the Hobart Returned Services League, and was the Nationalist member for Bass in the...	Nationalist	Tasmania	1920–1925
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	1910–1926, 1928
William Gibbs William Gibbs (Australian politician) William Albion Gibbs was an Australian politician.Born at Yan Yean, Victoria, he was educated at King's College in Melbourne. He served in the military from 1900–1902 and 1914-1916...	ALP	New South Wales	1925
Charles Graham Charles Graham Charles Graham was an Australian politician. Graham was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and educated at state schools. He worked as a tailor and was a union official before entering parliament...	ALP	Western Australia	1923–1929
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...	Nationalist	Queensland	1904–1928
Bill Glasgow Thomas William Glasgow Sir William Glasgow, KCB, CMG, DSO , was an Australian Army Major General in World War I and member of the Australian Senate, representing Queensland as a Nationalist Party member from 1919 - 1931.-Early life and career:...	Nationalist	Queensland	1920–1932
Charles Grant Charles Grant (Australian politician) Charles William Grant was an Australian politician.Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he was educated at Hutchins School before becoming a merchant and later a magistrate. In 1922 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Denison...	Nationalist	Tasmania	1925–1938, 1941–1947
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
James Guthrie James Guthrie (Australian politician) James Francis Guthrie was an Australian politician. Born at Rich Avon Station in Victoria, he was educated at Geelong College before becoming a grazier, sheep breeder and woolbroker. In 1919, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Nationalist Senator for Victoria...	Nationalist	Victoria	1920–1938
Joseph Hannan Joseph Hannan Joseph Francis Hannan was an Australian politician and trade unionist. Hannan was probably born in Yorkshire, England and emigrated with his family in 1888. He soon became involved in the union movement and was a member of the committee of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council that established the...	ALP	Victoria	1924–1925
John Hayes John Hayes (Australian politician) John Blyth Hayes was Premier of Tasmania from 12 August 1922 to 14 August 1923. Hayes was also the President of the Australian Senate from 1 July 1938 to 30 June 1941.Hayes was born in Bridgewater, and died in Launceston....	Nationalist	Tasmania	1923–1947
Herbert Hays Herbert Hays Herbert Hays was an Australian politician. Born at Forth, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools before becoming a farmer. In 1911, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a member for Wilmot, serving as an Honorary Minister 1916-1922...	Nationalist	Tasmania	1923–1947
Bert Hoare	ALP	South Australia	1922–1935
Walter Kingsmill Walter Kingsmill Sir Walter Kingsmill was an Australian politician.Born in Glenelg, South Australia, he was educated at St Peter's College in Adelaide and at the University of Adelaide before becoming a geologist. Moving to Western Australia in 1888, he became a mine manager...	Nationalist	Western Australia	1923–1935
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...	Nationalist	Western Australia	1907–1938
Hon Walter Massy-Greene	Nationalist	New South Wales	1910–1922 (HoR), 1923–1925, 1926–1938
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
Charles McHugh Charles McHugh Charles Stephen McHugh was an Australian politician. Born in South Australia, he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a clerk and an official with the Australian Workers' Union. He served on Thebarton Town Council before being elected to the Australian Senate in 1922 as a Labor Senator...	ALP	South Australia	1923–1927
Alexander McLachlan Alexander McLachlan Alexander John McLachlan was an Australian politician.McLachlan was born in Naracoorte, South Australia and educated at Hamilton Academy, and Mount Gambier High School. He was an articled clerk in Mount Gambier and completed the Final Certificate in Law at the University of Adelaide in 1895. He...	Nationalist	South Australia	1926–1944
Hon Edward Millen Edward Millen Edward Davis Millen was an Australian journalist and politician who served as the first Minister for Repatriation....	Nationalist	New South Wales	1901–1923
John Millen John Millen (Australian politician) John Dunlop Millen was an Irish-born Australian politician. Born in Derry, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at the University of Sydney, becoming an engineer and mine manager in Tasmania. In 1919, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Nationalist Senator for Tasmania...	Nationalist	Tasmania	1920–1938
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...	Nationalist	South Australia	1913–1932
James Ogden James Ogden James Ernest Ogden was an Australian politician who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Australian Senate....	Nationalist	Tasmania	1923–1932
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
Herbert Payne Herbert Payne Herbert James Mockford Payne was an Australian politician. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools before becoming an investor and grazier. In 1903, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Burnie, transferring to Darwin in 1909. He was Treasurer, Minister for...	Nationalist	Tasmania	1920–1938
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....	Nationalist	Western Australia	1901–1938
William Plain William Plain William Plain was a Scottish-born Australian politician.Born in Scotland, where he was educated, he migrated to Australia in 1890, where he became a farm worker and goldminer at Lara, Victoria. In 1908, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Geelong...	Nationalist	Victoria	1917–1923, 1925–1938
Jack Power	ALP	New South Wales	1924–1925
Matthew Reid Matthew Reid (Australian politician) Matthew Reid was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Ayrshire, he was educated in London before migrating to Australia in 1887. He was active in the Carpenters' Union and was an organiser of the Australian Labour Federation from 1890. In 1893, he was elected to the Queensland...	Nationalist	Queensland	1917–1935
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...	Nationalist	Victoria	1907–1925
Burford Sampson Burford Sampson Burford Sampson was an Australian politician. Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at Launceston Grammar School before serving in the military 1899-1901, during the Boer War. He remained in Africa, serving with the Rhodesian Mountain Police and farming in South Africa. He returned to...	Nationalist	Tasmania	1925–1938, 1941–1947
Hon Josiah Thomas Josiah Thomas Josiah Thomas was an Cornish Australian miner and politician.Thomas was born in Camborne, Cornwall, UK and went to Mexico as a child with his father and later worked in mines in Cornwall. He travelled to Australia in the mid-1880s and worked at the Barrier Range, near Broken Hill...	Nationalist	New South Wales	1901–1917 (HoR), 1917–1923, 1925–1929
William Thompson William Thompson (Australian politician) William George Thompson was an Irish-born Australian politician. He migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at state schools in Rockhampton in Queensland. He became a shop worker, a business owner and a colliery owner. He served in the military 1899-1901 and 1910–1917, and also sat on...	Nationalist	Queensland	1922–1932
Victor Wilson	FSA National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is... /Country	South Australia	1920–1926

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