Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1920–1922
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This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
from 22 May 1920 to 21 May 1922. The chamber had 30 seats made up of ten provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election.
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...
from 22 May 1920 to 21 May 1922. The chamber had 30 seats made up of ten provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election.
| Name | Party | Province | Term expires |
Years in office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Ardagh | National Labor National Labor Party The National Labor Party was the name used by the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes for himself and his followers after he was expelled from the Australian Labor Party in November 1916 over his pro-conscription stance in relation to World War I... |
North-East | 1924 | 1912–1924 |
| Frederick Baglin | 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... |
West | 1926 | 1920–1923 |
| Charles Baxter | Country National Party of Western Australia The National Party of Western Australia is a political party in Western Australia. It is affiliated with the National Party of Australia but maintains a separate structure and identity.... |
East | 1926 | 1914–1950 |
| Ephraim Clarke | 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... |
South-West | 1926 | 1901–1921 |
| Hal Colebatch Hal Colebatch Sir Harry Pateshall Colebatch CMG , better known as Sir Hal Colebatch, was a long-serving and occasionally controversial figure in Western Australian politics... |
Nationalist | East | 1924 | 1912–1923 |
| James Cornell | National Labor | South | 1924 | 1912–1946 |
| 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... |
Labor | North-East | 1922 | 1916–1922 |
| Jabez Dodd | National Labor | South | 1922 | 1910–1928 |
| Joseph Duffell | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to... |
1926 | 1914–1926 |
| John Ewing | Nationalist | South-West | 1924 | 1916–1933 |
| James Greig | Country | South-East | 1926 | 1916–1925 |
| Vernon Hamersley Vernon Hamersley Vernon Hamersley served the longest term ever as a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.-Life and career:... |
Country | East | 1922 | 1904–1946 |
| Edgar Harris | Nationalist | North-East | 1926 | 1920–1934 |
| James Hickey | Labor | Central | 1922 | 1916–1928 |
| Joseph Holmes | Independent | North | 1926 | 1914–1942 |
| 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... |
Independent | Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following... |
1922 | 1903–1922 |
| John Kirwan | Independent | South | 1926 | 1908–1946 |
| Arthur Lovekin Arthur Lovekin Arthur Lovekin was a West Australian journalist, newspaper editor and owner and politician.-Early life:Lovekin was born , in Slough, Buckinghamshire... |
Nationalist | Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following... |
1924 | 1919–1931 |
| Robert Lynn | Nationalist | West | 1924 | 1912–1924 |
| Cuthbert McKenzie | Country | South-East | 1922 | 1910–1922 |
| George Miles | Independent | North | 1924 | 1916–1950 |
| Joshua Mills | Ind. Nat. | Central | 1924 | 1918–1924 |
| Thomas Moore | Labor | Central | 1926 | 1920–1926; 1932–1946 |
| John Nicholson | Nationalist | Metropolitan Metropolitan Province The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following... |
1926 | 1918–1941 |
| Alexander Panton Alexander Panton Alexander Hugh Panton was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1919 to 1922, before entering the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1924, representing Menzies. He transferred to Leederville in 1930 and served until 1951. From... |
Labor | West | 1922 | 1919–1922 |
| Edwin Rose | Nationalist | South-West | 1922 | 1916–1934 |
| Archibald Sanderson Archibald Sanderson Archibald Sanderson was an Australian politician.Born at Glenthompson in Victoria to pastoralist John Sanderson and Agnes Roberts, he attended Haileybury College and Christ Church, Oxford after the family's move to England before travelling to New Zealand to work as a parliamentary reporter for... |
Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to... |
1924 | 1912–1922 |
| Athelstan Saw | Nationalist | Metropolitan-Suburban Metropolitan-Suburban Province The Metropolitan-Suburban Province was a three-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899, and became effective on 29 August 1900 following a special election to... |
1922 | 1915–1929 |
| Hector Stewart | Nationalist | South-East | 1924 | 1917–1931 |
| Francis Willmott | Country | South-West | 1926 | 1921–1926 |
| Sir Edward Wittenoom Edward Wittenoom Sir Edward Charles Wittenoom KCMG was an Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for thirty four years.- Early life :... |
Nationalist | North | 1922 | 1883–1884; 1885–1886; 1894–1898; 1902–1906; 1910–1934 |