Members of the Australian Senate, 1935–1938
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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 1935 to 1938. Half of its members were elected at the 19 December 1931 election
Australian federal election, 1931
Federal elections were held in Australia on 19 December 1931. 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 1932 and finishing on 30 June 1938; the other half were elected at the 15 September 1934 election
Australian federal election, 1934
Federal elections were held in Australia on 15 September 1934. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent United Australia Party led by Prime Minister of Australia Joseph Lyons with coalition partner the Country Party led...

 and had terms starting on 1 July 1935 and finishing on 30 June 1941.
Senator Party State Years in Office
Mac Abbott  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...

 
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...

 
1935–1941
James Arkins
James Arkins
James Guy Dalley Arkins was an Australian politician.Born in Millthorpe, New South Wales, he was educated at public schools before becoming a builder. In 1915 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Castlereagh. After the Labor split of 1916 over...

 
Country New South Wales 1935–1937
Bill Ashley  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...

 
New South Wales 1937–1958
Oliver Badman  Country 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...

 
1932–1937, 1937–1943 (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....

)
Charles Brand
Charles Brand
Major General Charles Henry Brand CB, CMG, CVO, DSO was an Australian Army brigadier-general in World War I. He retired in 1930 as a major-general.-Early life and career:...

 
UAP 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....

 
1935–1947
Tom Brennan  UAP Victoria 1931–1938
Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown (Australian politician)
Gordon Brown was a long-serving Australian politician.Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School before becoming a printer and engineer. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party...

 
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...

 
1932–1965
William Carroll
William Carroll (Australian politician)
William Carroll was an Australian politician. Born in Garvoc, Victoria, he was educated at Horsham before moving to Western Australia during the gold rush to become a miner, and subsequently became a farmer at Tammin...

Country 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...

 
1926–1936
Herbert Collett
Herbert Collett
Herbert Brayley Collett CMG DSO was an Australian politician, librarian and soldier.Collett was born in St. Peter Port, Guernsey and arrived with his family in Western Australia in October 1884. He was educated at Perth Grammar School and became a librarian at the Victoria Public Library in 1891...

 
UAP Western Australia 1933–1947
Joseph Collings
Joseph Collings
Joseph Silver Collings was a long-serving Australian politician. He was a hardworking Australian Labor Party bureaucrat with valuable writing and speaking talents, who was eventually rewarded by a five-year stint as a federal government minister.Collings was born in Brighton, England and...

 
ALP Queensland 1932–1950
Walter Cooper  Country Queensland 1928–1932, 1935–1968
Lionel Courtenay
Lionel Courtenay
Lionel Thomas Courtenay was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, where he was educated, he became a builder and a company director. He was involved in local politics, sitting on Mascot Council, Mosman Council and Sydney City Council. In 1932, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative...

 
UAP New South Wales 1935
Ben Courtice  ALP Queensland 1937–1962
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:...

 
UAP New South Wales 1920–1938
James Cunningham
James Cunningham (Australian politician)
James Cunningham was an Australian politician. Born in Western Australia, he received a primary education before becoming a goldminer at Norseman and then Boulder. He was secretary of the Federated Miners' Union before his election to the Western Australian Legislative Council in 1916 as a Labor...

 
ALP Western Australia 1937–1943
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:...

 
UAP Queensland 1917–1947
Adam Dein
Adam Dein
Adam Kemball Dein was an Australian politician. Born in Orange, New South Wales, he was educated at public schools before becoming a goldminer and a farmer. Moving to Sydney he became a teacher. In 1931 he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the member for Lang, representing...

 
UAP New South Wales 1935–1941
Jack Duncan-Hughes  UAP South Australia 1922–28 (HoR), 1931–38, 1940–1943 (HoR)
Hon Harry Foll  UAP Queensland 1917–1947
Hon William Gibson  Country Victoria 1918–29 (HoR), 1931—34 (HoR), 1935–1947
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...

 
UAP 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...

 
1925, 1932–1941
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...

 
UAP Victoria 1920–1938
Charles Hardy
Charles Hardy (Australian politician)
Charles Hardy was an Australian politician. Born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, he was educated at Geelong Grammar School before serving in the military 1917-1919. He returned to become a manufacturer of building supplies, and was a leader of the Riverina new state movement...

 
Country New South Wales 1932–1938
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....

 
UAP 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...

 
UAP Tasmania 1923–1947
Bertie Johnston  Country Western Australia 1929–1942
John Leckie
John Leckie (Australian politician)
John William Leckie was an Australian farmer turned politician.Leckie was born at Alexandra, Victoria and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne. He played Australian rules football for Fitzroy Football Club in 1895...

 
UAP Victoria 1935–1947
Hon 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...

 
UAP Western Australia 1907–1938
Allan MacDonald
Allan MacDonald
Allan Nicoll MacDonald was an Australian politician and government minister.MacDonald was born at Lochee, Forfarshire, Scotland and educated at Arbroath High School. He migrated to Western Australia in 1911 and worked at Collie before moving to Perth in 1914, where he was employed as an accountant...

 
UAP Western Australia 1935–1947
John MacDonald
John MacDonald (Australian politician)
John Valentine MacDonald was a New Zealand-born Australian politician. Born in Opotiki in New Zealand, he was educated in the country before becoming a printer. He migrated to Australia in 1897, becoming a journalist and editor; he was editor of the Brisbane Standard in 1913...

 
ALP Queensland 1922, 1928, 1932–1937
Thomas Marwick
Thomas Marwick
Thomas William Marwick was an Australian politician.Born in York, Western Australia, he was educated at Catholic schools and at Perth Technical College before becoming an engineer. He farmed at Brookton and at York before entering politics. In 1936, he was appointed to the Australian Senate to...

Country Western Australia 1936–1937, 1940–1943 (HoR)
Hon Walter Massy-Greene  UAP New South Wales 1910–1922 (HoR), 1923–1925, 1926–1938
Hon Philip McBride
Philip McBride
Sir Philip Albert Martin McBride KCMG was an Australian politician.McBride was born into a well-known pastoral family and educated at Burra Public School and Prince Alfred College in Adelaide. In 1931, he was elected as the member for Grey in the Australian House of Representatives, representing...

 
UAP South Australia 1931–1937 (HoR), 1937–1944, 1946–1958 (HoR)
Hon 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...

 
UAP South Australia 1926–1944
James McLachlan
James McLachlan (Australian politician)
James McLachlan was an Australian politician. Born in Alma, South Australia, he was educated at Winham College before becoming a farmer at Dalkey. After working as a storekeeper and agent, he was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Nationalist member for Wooroora in 1918,...

 
UAP South Australia 1935–1947
Hon George McLeay
George McLeay
George McLeay was an Australian politician and senior minister in the Menzies Liberal government.McLeay was born in Port Clinton, South Australia and educated at Port Clinton Public School until 1906 when he was sent to Adelaide where he continued his education at Unley Public School...

 
UAP South Australia 1935–1947, 1950–1955
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...

 
UAP Tasmania 1920–1938
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...

 
UAP 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....

 
UAP 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...

 
UAP Victoria 1917–1923, 1925–1938
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...

 
UAP Tasmania 1925–1938, 1941–1947
Oliver Uppill
Oliver Uppill
Oliver Uppill was an Australian politician. Born in Nantawarra, South Australia, he was educated at public schools before becoming a farmer and grazier at Balaklava. He was director of the State Bank of South Australia, and served as President of the Liberal Federation 1920-1924...

 
UAP South Australia 1935–1944

See also

  • Australian House of Representatives
    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....

  • Australian electoral system
    Australian electoral system
    The Australian electoral system has evolved over nearly 150 years of continuous democratic government, and has a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting, preferential voting and the use of proportional voting to elect the upper house, the Australian Senate.- Compulsory voting...

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