Members of the Australian Senate, 1947–1950

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 1947 to 1950. Half of its members were elected at the 21 August 1943 election

Australian federal election, 1943

Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin easily defeated the opposition Country Party led...

and had terms starting on 1 July 1944 and finishing on 30 June 1947; the other half were elected at the 28 September 1946 election

Australian federal election, 1946

Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 September 1946. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...

and had terms starting on 1 July 1947 and finishing on 30 June 1953.

All senators elected at the 1943 election and 15 of the 18 elected (representing all states except Queensland) represented the Australian Labor Party

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...

, leading to the strongest single party domination in any Australian Senate. The plurality-at-large voting

Plurality-at-large voting

Plurality-at-large voting is a non-proportional voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember electoral district using a series of check boxes and tallying votes similar to a plurality election...

system used before the 1949 election

Australian federal election, 1949

Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1949. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives, and 42 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, where the single transferable vote was introduced...

meant that the winning party (or coalition) ticket usually took all seats in each state.

Senator	Party	State	Years in Office
Stan Amour	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 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...	1938–1965
Hon John Armstrong John Armstrong (Australian politician) John Ignatius Armstrong, AC was an Australian politician and federal minister.Armstrong was born in the Sydney suburb of Ultimo and ducated at St Bede's School, Pyrmont, and Marist Brothers' High School, Darlinghurst...	ALP	New South Wales	1938–1962
Hon Bill Ashley	ALP	New South Wales	1938–1962
James Arnold James Arnold (Australian politician) James Jarvist Arnold was an Australian politician. Born in Wallaroo, South Australia, he was educated at Christian Brothers College in Adelaide before becoming a railway worker and firefighter. Moving to Newcastle, New South Wales, he qualified as an accountant. In 1940, he was elected to the...	ALP	New South Wales	1941–1965
Fred Beerworth	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...	1946–1951
Bill Aylett	ALP	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...	1938–1965
Hon 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
Hon Don Cameron	ALP	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....	1938–1962
Robert Clothier Robert Clothier (Australian politician) Robert Ernest Clothier was an Australian politician. Born in Queensland, he received a primary education before becoming a bookmaker. Moving to Perth, Western Australia, he became a foreman at a boot factory and secretary of the Bootmakers' Union...	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...	1943–1968
Hon 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
Joe Cooke	ALP	Western Australia	1947–1951, 1952–1965
Hon Walter Cooper	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...	Queensland	1928–1932, 1935–1968
Hon Ben Courtice	ALP	Queensland	1937–1962
Jack Critchley	ALP	South Australia	1947–1959
Jack Devlin	ALP	Victoria	1946–1957
Alexander Finlay Alexander Finlay Alexander Finlay was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he moved to South Australia as a child and received a primary education in Adelaide. He became a carriage painter, and an organiser with the Coachbuilders' Union...	ALP	South Australia	1944–1953
Hon James Fraser James Fraser (Western Australian politician) James McIntosh Fraser was an Australian trade unionist and politician.Fraser was born in Forres, Morayshire, Scotland and educated locally. He emigrated to Australia and married Ellen Simmons in April 1912 in Perth...	ALP	Western Australia	1938–1959
Donald Grant Donald Grant Donald Grant was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World in Sydney, Australia, a member of the Sydney Twelve charged with conspiracy in 1916, and later a member of the Australian Labor Party who was elected to Sydney City Council, appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, and...	ALP	New South Wales	1944–1959
John Harris John Harris (Australian politician) John Harris was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he moved to Western Australia in 1898 and was educated at state schools in Perth. He became a blacksmith, and served in the military 1916-1919. He was Western Australian Secretary of the Australian Society of Engineers...	ALP	Western Australia	1947–1951, 1953–1959
Bert Hendrickson	ALP	Victoria	1947–1971, 1970–1974
Fred Katz	ALP	Victoria	1947–1951
Charles Lamp Charles Lamp Charles Adcock Lamp was an Australian politician. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools in Queenstown before becoming an apprentice shipwright, blacksmith and railway worker...	ALP	Tasmania	1938–1950
William Large William Large William James Large was an English-born Australian politician. Born in Kent, he was educated at St Botolph's School in Northfield before migrating to Australia as a young man. He became a public servant with the New South Wales Department of Labour and an official of the Amalgamated Engineering...	ALP	New South Wales	1941–1951
Hon Nick McKenna	ALP	Tasmania	1944–1968
Bill Morrow	ALP	Tasmania	1947–1953
Reg Murray	ALP	Tasmania	1947–1951
Richard Nash Richard Nash (Australian politician) Richard Henry Nash was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he moved to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia as a child. After receiving a primary education, he became a tramway worker, and an official with the Tramway Workers' Union. He was Secretary of the Perth Trades Hall Council...	ALP	Western Australia	1943–1951
Theo Nicholls	ALP	South Australia	1944–1968
Justin O'Byrne Justin O'Byrne Justin Hilary O'Byrne, AO was a long-serving Australian Labor Party politician who represented Tasmania in the Federal Senate from 1947 to 1981, acting as President of the Senate from 1974 to 1975.-Biography:...	ALP	Tasmania	1947–1981
Sid O'Flaherty	ALP	South Australia	1944–1962
Neil O'Sullivan Neil O'Sullivan Sir Michael Neil O'Sullivan KBE was an Australian politician and lawyer.O'Sullivan was born in the Brisbane suburb of Toowong and educated at Taringa State School and St. Joseph's Nudgee College and was admitted as a solicitor in December 1922. In April 1929, he married Jessie Margaret Mary...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	Queensland	1947–1962
Dame Annabelle Rankin Annabelle Rankin Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin DBE was the second woman member of the Australian Senate, the first woman from Queensland to sit in the Parliament of Australia, the first woman to have a federal portfolio and the first woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission.-Biography:Rankin was born in...	Liberal	Queensland	1947–1971
Charles Sandford Charles Sandford Charles Walter Sandford was an Australian politician.Born in the state of Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a railway worker. He served in the military from 1914 to 1918, and returned as an official with the Australian Railways Union...	ALP	Victoria	1947–1956, 1957–1966
Jim Sheehan	ALP	Victoria	1938–1940, 1944–1962
Dame Dorothy Tangney Dorothy Tangney Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney DBE was an Australian politician and the first woman member of the Australian Senate.Dorothy Tangney started her career as a school teacher in Western Australia...	ALP	Western Australia	1943–1968
Frederick Ward Frederick Ward (Australian politician) Frederick Furner Ward was an Australian politician. Born in Bowden, South Australia, he was educated at state schools before becoming a commercial traveller and clerk. A founding member of the South Australian Labor Party, he was its secretary 1922-1943, and was also secretary of the South...	ALP	South Australia	1947–1951

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