Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1912–1915
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This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Queensland Legislative Assembly
The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

from 1912 to 1915, as elected at the 1912 state election. Apart from the 1904–1907 term
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1904–1907
This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1907, as elected at the 1904 state election.At the start of the period, the state was governed by a coalition of a Liberal group led by Arthur Morgan, and the Labour Party led by William Kidston, while the Conservatives...

, when Labor had held two seats short of a majority, the parliament had been dominated by non-Labor forces since the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1860 — this was the last such parliament until 1957, apart from the 1929–1932 term
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1929–1932
This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1929 to 1932, as elected at the 1929 state election.*Moore Ministry...

 led by the Moore Ministry
Moore Ministry (Queensland)
The Moore Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Country and Progressive National Party Premier Arthur Edward Moore. It succeeded the McCormack Ministry on 21 May 1929, ten days after William McCormack's Labor government was defeated at the 1929 state election...

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Name Party Electorate Term in office
John Adamson  Labor
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...

 
Rockhampton
Electoral district of Rockhampton
The district of Rockhampton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Wedged between the electoral districts of Keppel to the east and Mirani to the west, Rockhampton encompasses the bulk of the regional city of Rockhampton and many of its outlying...

 
1907–1909; 1911–1917
James Allan  Ministerial Kurilpa
Electoral district of Kurilpa
Kurilpa was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland from 1912 to 1986. It was named for the Kurilpa Peninsula on the Brisbane River...

 
1909–1915
Hon John Appel
John Appel
John George Appel was an Australian politician, lawyer, and farmer. He served from 1908-1929 as a delegate for the electoral district of Albert and from 1909-1915 as the Secretary of Mine and Public Works and Home Secretary of Queensland....

 
Ministerial/Farmers' Union Albert
Electoral district of Albert
The electoral district of Albert is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland. Albert is named for the Albert River, which runs through the electorate and separates Logan City from Gold Coast City...

 
1908–1929
Edward Archer
Edward Archer
Edward Walker Archer was an Australian politician.Archer gained election to the Australian House of Representatives electoral Division of Capricornia on an Anti-Socialist platform on 12 December 1906, serving until 13 April 1910.Later, Archer switched to state politics, serving as member for the...

Ministerial Normanby  1914–1915
William Armstrong  Ministerial Lockyer
Electoral district of Lockyer
The district of Lockyer is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district consists primarily of Gatton and Laidley Shires and northern parts of Beaudesert Shire. It includes the major town of Gatton and a number of smaller centres including...

 
1893–1904; 1907–1918
George Barber  Labor Bundaberg
Electoral district of Bundaberg
The division of Bundaberg is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in central Queensland, Australia.It covers the city of Bundaberg, as well as the immediate surrounding area, hence its name....

 
1901–1935
George Barnes  Ministerial Warwick
Electoral district of Warwick
Warwick was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 2001. It centred on the town of Warwick....

 
1908–1935
Hon Walter Barnes  Ministerial Bulimba
Electoral district of Bulimba
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1901–1915, 1918–1933
William Bebbington  Ministerial/Farmers' Union Drayton  1912–1923
Ernest Bell Ministerial Fassifern  1913–1930
William Bertram
William Bertram (politician)
William Bertram was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Maree in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1912 to 1929. He served as Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1920 to 1929....

 
Labor Maree  1912–1929
Hon James Blair
James Blair (Australian judge)
Sir James William Blair KCMG was an Australian politician, lawyer and judge. He was a successful politician, being elected to the Queensland Parliament on several occasions. He held the office of Attorney-General and was also the Minister for Mines and introduced many successful law reforms...

 
Ministerial Ipswich
Electoral district of Ipswich
The district of Ipswich is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district on the Brisbane River, west of Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland...

 
1902–1915
Charles Booker  Ministerial Wide Bay  1909–1918
Thomas Bouchard  Ministerial South Brisbane
Electoral district of South Brisbane
The district of South Brisbane is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. The electorate encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-south, stretching from East Brisbane to West End, and south to Fairfield...

 
1904–1908; 1909–1915
David Bowman  Labor Fortitude Valley  1899–1902; 1904–1916
Edward Breslin Labor Port Curtis
Electoral district of Port Curtis
Port Curtis was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 1992.The district was centred on the regional city of Gladstone. In 1992, it was renamed Gladstone.-Members for Port Curtis:...

 
1909–1912
Thomas Bridges
Thomas Bridges (Australian politician)
Thomas Bridges was a member of Australia's Queensland Legislative Assembly in the seat of Nundah as a member of the Ministerial party and as a member of the then Commonwealth Liberal Party .-Early...

 
Ministerial Nundah
Electoral district of Nundah
Nundah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 1992.The district was based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. At the time of its abolition it included the suburbs of Nundah, Eagle Farm, Hendra and Toombul.-Members for Nundah:...

 
1896–1907; 1909–1918
Edward Caine  Ministerial Bowen
Electoral district of Bowen
Bowen was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1873 to 1950 and at various times until 1992....

 
1912–1915
Bernard Corser
Bernard Corser
Bernard Henry Corser was an Australian politician. In 1912, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Burnett, joining the Nationalist Party on its formation in 1917. He held the seat until 1928...

 
Ministerial Burnett
Electoral district of Burnett
The district of Burnett is an electoral division of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in central Queensland, Australia.It covers most of the coastal region south of Gladstone, as well as coastal and inland regions around Bundaberg. Towns within its boundaries include Miriam Vale, Agnes Water,...

 
1912–1928
Edward Corser
Edward Corser
Edward Bernard Cresset Corser was an Australian politician. Born in Birmingham, England, he was educated at Worcester and migrated to Australia in 1864. He was a sugar worker and bank officer in Maryborough in Queensland, eventually becoming a businessman. In 1909, he was elected to the Queensland...

 
Ministerial Maryborough
Electoral district of Maryborough
The district of Maryborough is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is centred on the regional city of Maryborough and takes in other surrounding communities....

 
1909–1915
John Coyne  Labor Warrego
Electoral district of Warrego
The district of Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales...

 
1908–1923
James Crawford  Ministerial Mount Morgan  1909–1915
James Cribb  Ministerial Bremer  1893–1896; 1899–1915
Hon Digby Denham
Digby Denham
Digby Frank Denham was an Australian politician, businessman and leading Queensland Orangeman. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1902 until 1915 representing the seat of Oxley, and was Premier of Queensland from 7 February 1911 to 1 June 1915...

 
Ministerial Oxley  1902–1915
Harry Douglas  Ministerial Cook
Electoral district of Cook
The electoral division of Cook is an electoral district in Queensland, Australia.Cook covers the vast Cape York Peninsula north of Cairns, including the resort town of Port Douglas and the Torres Strait Islands...

 
1907–1915
Hon John Fihelly
John Fihelly
John Arthur 'Jack' Fihelly was a rugby union player who represented Australia, a rugby league player, a founder of the Queensland rugby league, and a labor party politician....

 
Labor Paddington  1912–1922
Thomas Foley  Labor Mundingburra
Electoral district of Mundingburra
The district of Mundingburra is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.- Overview :The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland. Significant utilities within the Mundingburra electorate are the Townsville Hospital,...

 
1909–1920
James Forsythe
James Forsythe
Dr. James Forsythe is an American author, anti-aging physician, and integrative oncologist specializing in the use of human growth hormone to combat the symptoms of aging...

 
Ministerial Murrumba
Electoral district of Murrumba
The district of Murrumba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Deception Bay, Kippa-Ring, Murrumba Downs and Rothwell...

 
1899–1907; 1909–1918
George Fox Ministerial Normanby  1877–1878; 1901–1914
John Gilday  Labor Ithaca  1912–1926
William Gillies
William Gillies (Australian politician)
William Neil Gillies was ALP Premier of Queensland, Australia, from 26 February 1925 to 22 October 1925....

 
Labor Eacham  1912–1925
Hon Kenneth Grant  Ministerial Fitzroy  1902–1915
Francis Grayson  Ministerial Cunningham
Electoral district of Cunningham
Cunningham was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 2009.Prior to its abolition, the district occupied an area of the Darling Downs, south and west of Toowoomba. Historically it was centred on the town of Clifton. The eastern portion...

 
1904–1920
Donald Gunn  Ministerial Carnarvon
Electoral district of Carnarvon
Carnarvon was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland that existed from 1873 to 1992.The district took in rural areas in southern Queensland, including the towns of Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi....

 
1907–1920
William Hamilton  Labor Gregory
Electoral district of Gregory
The district of Gregory is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in Queensland, Australia.-Members for Gregory:-Election results:-External links:*...

 
1899–1915
Herbert Hardacre
Herbert Hardacre
Herbert Freemont Hardacre was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1893 until 1919.-References:...

 
Labor Leichhardt
Electoral district of Leichhardt (Queensland)
Leichhardt was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 1932.Taking in areas of central Queensland west of the Great Dividing Range, the district in its original form stretched as far as Mackay in the north and as far south as Taroom...

 
1893–1919
Robert Hodge  Ministerial/Farmers' Union Nanango
Electoral district of Nanango
The district of Nanango is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.Nanango was the original seat of Sir Joh-Bjelke Petersen . In the 2006 legislative election, incumbent member Dorothy Pratt beat off a strong challenge by the late Bjelke-Petersen's son John to retain the seat...

 
1902–1904; 1909–1920
John McEwan Hunter  Labor Maranoa  1907–1919
John Huxham  Labor Buranda  1908–1909, 1912–1924
John Kessell Ministerial Port Curtis
Electoral district of Port Curtis
Port Curtis was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 1992.The district was centred on the regional city of Gladstone. In 1992, it was renamed Gladstone.-Members for Port Curtis:...

 
1912–1915
Mick Kirwan  Labor Brisbane
Electoral district of Brisbane (Queensland)
Brisbane was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1977.Based in inner central Brisbane, north of the Brisbane River, it was first created as a single member constituency for the 1912 state election, largely replacing the dual member...

 
1912–1932
Edward Land  Labor Balonne  1904–1927
James Larcombe
James Larcombe
James Larcombe was a labor politician from Queensland, Australia.-Biography:James Larcombe was born in Rockhampton, Queensland on 25 April 1884. His father, also named James Larcombe, was a butcher, and his mother was Mary Lee. As a young man, he worked as a butcher with his father and was...

 
Labor Keppel
Electoral district of Keppel
The district of Keppel is an electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.The electoral district encompasses the central Queensland coast from the mouth of the Fitzroy River in the south to Shoalwater Bay to the north...

 
1912–1929, 1932–1956
William Lennon  Labor Herbert  1907–1920
Alfred Luke  Ministerial Aubigny
Electoral district of Aubigny
The electoral district of Aubigny was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland. It was first created in a redistribution ahead of the 1873 state election, and existed until the 1972 state election....

 
1912–1915
Hon Edward Macartney  Ministerial Toowong  1900–1908; 1909–1920
Hon William McCormack
William McCormack
William McCormack , was Premier of Queensland, Australia, from 1925 to 1929.He was born in Purnam, Queensland and died in Brisbane on 21 November 1947....

 
Labor Cairns
Electoral district of Cairns
The electoral district of Cairns is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia.The division encompasses the central business district and inner-suburbs of Cairns, in Far North Queensland...

 
1912–1930
George Mackay
George Mackay (Australian politician)
George Hugh Alexander Mackay was an Australian politician and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.-Early life:...

 
Ministerial Gympie
Electoral district of Gympie
The district of Gympie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland The electorate is centred on the city of Gympie and stretches north to Rainbow Beach and as far south to Pomona....

 
1912–1915
Donald Mackintosh  Ministerial Pittsworth  1899–1915
Hugh Macrossan  Ministerial Windsor
Electoral district of Windsor (Queensland)
Windsor was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, taking in areas north of Breakfast Creek and south of Kedron Brook...

 
1912–1915
John May
John May (politician)
John Milton May is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. He was appointed by Gov. Beverly Perdue to represent District 49 in the House on April 21, 2010, after being selected by local Democrats in the district . He filled the vacancy left by the resignation of...

 
Labor Flinders
Electoral district of Flinders (Queensland)
The electoral district of Flinders was formerly a state electorate in the Parliament of Queensland covering parts of central Queensland. It was abolished in a redistribution in 1991, effective 1992. The last sitting member of the seat was Bob Katter, who had held it since December 1974.-Members for...

 
1907–1917
Godfrey Morgan  Ministerial/Farmers' Union Murilla  1909–1938
William Murphy  Independent Burke  1904–1907; 1908–1918
James O'Sullivan  Labor Kennedy  1909–1920
Hon Walter Paget  Ministerial Mackay
Electoral district of Mackay
The district of Mackay is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district in North Queensland, Australia, encompassing the inner suburbs of the city of Mackay...

 
1901–1915
John Payne  Labor Mitchell  1905–1928
Andrew Petrie  Ministerial Toombul  1893–1926
Robert Philp
Robert Philp
Sir Robert Philp, KCMG was a Queensland businessman and politician who was Premier of Queensland from December 1899 to September 1903 and again from November 1907 to February 1908.-Early life:...

 
Ministerial Townsville
Electoral district of Townsville
The district of Townsville is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland, and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and...

 
1886–1915
Hon Colin Rankin
Colin Rankin
Colin Dunlop Wilson Rankin was a soldier, politician, cane farmer and company director....

 
Ministerial Burrum  1905–1918
Robert Roberts  Ministerial East Toowoomba
Electoral district of East Toowoomba
The Electoral District of East Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into East Toowoomba, Toowoomba and Drayton...

 
1907–1934
T. J. Ryan
T. J. Ryan
Thomas Joseph "T.J." Ryan was Premier of Queensland, Australia from May 1915 until October 1919 when he resigned to enter Federal politics.-Early life:Thomas Joseph Ryan was born at Port Fairy, Victoria...

 
Labor Barcoo  1909–1919
Henry Plantagenet Somerset  Ministerial Stanley  1904–1920
Harry Stevens  Ministerial Rosewood  1911–1918
James Stodart  Ministerial Logan
Electoral district of Logan
The district of Logan is an electoral division in southern Queensland, Australia.Logan encompasses urban and semi-rural environments on the southern outskirts of the Brisbane metropolitan area...

 
1896–1918
Edward Swayne  Ministerial Mirani
Electoral district of Mirani
The district of Mirani is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.It covers much of the Queensland coast between the cities of Rockhampton and Mackay, as well as the hinterland west of Mackay. Towns include St Lawrence, Carmila, Sarina, and Eungella...

 
1907–1935
Ted Theodore
Ted Theodore
Edward Granville Theodore was an Australian politician. He was Premier of Queensland 1919–25, a federal politician representing a New South Wales seat 1927–31, and Federal Treasurer 1929–30.-Early life:...

 
Labor Chillagoe  1909–1925
Hon James Tolmie  Ministerial Toowoomba
Electoral district of Toowoomba
The Electoral District of Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into Toowoomba, East Toowoomba and Drayton...

 
1901–1907; 1909–1918
Richard Trout  Ministerial Enoggera  1911–1915
William Vowles  Ministerial Dalby
Electoral district of Dalby
Dalby was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It existed from 1873 to 1949 and centred on the town of Dalby.-Members for Dalby:...

 
1911–1926
Harry Walker  Ministerial Cooroora  1907–1947
Thomas Welsby
Thomas Welsby
Thomas Welsby was a Queensland businessman, author, politician, and sportsman.-Early life:Born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1858, Welsby was the fourth of ten children of William Welsby and Hannah Welsby His parents migrated from Cornwall to Moreton Bay three years earlier in 1855...

 
Ministerial Merthyr
Electoral district of Merthyr
Merthyr was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992.First created for the 1912 state election, the district was based in inner Brisbane centred on the suburb of New Farm, covering areas that previously belonged to the district of...

 
1911–1915
Hon John White  Ministerial Musgrave  1903–1904; 1907–1915
Arnold Wienholt
Arnold Wienholt
Arnold Wienholt was an Australian politician. Born in Goomburra, Queensland, he was educated in England at Eton College before returning to Australia as a grazier on the Darling Downs. He served in the military 1899-1902 and 1914–1916, and was a published author...

Ministerial Fassifern  1909–1913, 1930–1935
Robert Williams  Ministerial Charters Towers
Electoral district of Charters Towers
Charters Towers was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It has had three incarnations, most recently being created as part of a redistribution in 1991 and lasting until 2008....

 
1912–1915
Vern Winstanley  Labor Queenton  1908–1932

At the 1912 election in Maryborough
Electoral district of Maryborough
The district of Maryborough is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is centred on the regional city of Maryborough and takes in other surrounding communities....

, Edward Corser
Edward Corser
Edward Bernard Cresset Corser was an Australian politician. Born in Birmingham, England, he was educated at Worcester and migrated to Australia in 1864. He was a sugar worker and bank officer in Maryborough in Queensland, eventually becoming a businessman. In 1909, he was elected to the Queensland...

, the sitting Ministerial member, won against Labor candidate William Mitchell by 10 votes. The election was declared void and went to a by-election on 12 October 1912, at which Corser won again, but by just 2 votes.
At the 1912 election in Port Curtis
Electoral district of Port Curtis
Port Curtis was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1860 to 1992.The district was centred on the regional city of Gladstone. In 1992, it was renamed Gladstone.-Members for Port Curtis:...

, Edward Breslin, the sitting Labor member, won against Ministerial candidate John Kessell by 2 votes. The election was declared void on 9 October 1912 and went to a by-election on 26 October, at which Kessell won by 96 votes.
On 28 March 1913, Arnold Wienholt
Arnold Wienholt
Arnold Wienholt was an Australian politician. Born in Goomburra, Queensland, he was educated in England at Eton College before returning to Australia as a grazier on the Darling Downs. He served in the military 1899-1902 and 1914–1916, and was a published author...

, the Ministerial member for Fassifern, resigned to contest Wide Bay
Division of Wide Bay
The Division of Wide Bay is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election...

 at the 1913 federal 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...

. Ministerial candidate Ernest Bell won the resulting by-election on 24 April 1913.
On 27 January 1914, George Fox, the Ministerial member for Normanby, died. Ministerial candidate Edward Archer
Edward Archer
Edward Walker Archer was an Australian politician.Archer gained election to the Australian House of Representatives electoral Division of Capricornia on an Anti-Socialist platform on 12 December 1906, serving until 13 April 1910.Later, Archer switched to state politics, serving as member for the...

won the resulting by-election on 5 March 1914.
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