Members of the Australian Senate, 1904–1906
Senate composition at 1 January 1904
Protectionist (8)
Labour (14)
Anti-Socialist (12)
Tariff Reform (1)
Independent (1)
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1904 to 1906.[1] Half of its members were elected at the March 1901 election and had terms deemed to start on 1 January 1901 and finishing on 31 December 1906; the other half were elected at the 16 December 1903 election and had terms starting on 1 January 1904 and finishing on 30 June 1910, extended as a result of the 1906 referendum, which changed Senate terms to finish on 30 June, rather than 31 December.[2] Parties reflect those acknowledged at the time of the 1904 election[a]
Senator | Party | State | Term ending | Years in office | |
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Sir Richard Baker | Free Trade | South Australia | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 | |
Robert Best | Protectionist | Victoria | 30 June 1910 | 1901–1910 | |
John Clemons | Free Trade | Tasmania | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1914 | |
John Croft | Labour | Western Australia | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1910 | |
Anderson Dawson | Labour | Queensland | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 | |
Hugh de Largie | Labour | Western Australia | 30 June 1910 | 1901–1923 | |
Henry Dobson | Tariff Reform | Tasmania | 30 June 1910 | 1901–1910 | |
James Drake | Protectionist | Queensland | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 | |
Edward Findley | Labour | Victoria | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1917, 1923–1929 | |
Simon Fraser | Protectionist | Victoria | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1913 | |
Thomas Givens | Labour | Queensland | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1928 | |
Albert Gould | Free Trade | New South Wales | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1917 | |
John Gray | Free Trade | New South Wales | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1910 | |
Robert Guthrie | Labour | South Australia | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1921 | |
George Henderson | Labour | Western Australia | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1923 | |
William Higgs | Labour | Queensland | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 | |
John Keating | Protectionist | Tasmania | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1923 | |
James Macfarlane | Free Trade | Tasmania | 30 June 1910 | 1901–1910 | |
Alexander Matheson | Free Trade | Western Australia | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 | |
Gregor McGregor | Labour | South Australia | 30 June 1910 | 1901–1914 | |
Edward Millen | Free Trade | New South Wales | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1923 | |
Edward Mulcahy | Protectionist | Tasmania | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1910, 1919–1920 | |
John Neild | Free Trade | New South Wales | 30 June 1910 | 1901–1910 | |
David O'Keefe | Labour | Tasmania | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906, 1910–1920 | |
George Pearce | Labour | Western Australia | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1938 | |
Thomas Playford | Protectionist | South Australia | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 | |
Edward Pulsford | Free Trade | New South Wales | 30 June 1910 | 1901–1910 | |
Staniforth Smith | Free Trade | Western Australia | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 | |
James Stewart | Labour | Queensland | 30 June 1910 | 1901–1917 | |
William Story | Labour | South Australia | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1917 | |
James Styles | Protectionist | Victoria | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 | |
Sir Josiah Symon | Free Trade | South Australia | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1913 | |
William Trenwith | Independent [b] | Victoria | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1910 | |
Harry Turley | Labour | Queensland | 30 June 1910 | 1904–1917 | |
James Walker | Free Trade | New South Wales | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1913 | |
Sir William Zeal | Protectionist | Victoria | 31 December 1906 | 1901–1906 |
Notes
- ^ Prior to the 1906 election the Free Trade Party renamed itself the Anti-Socialist Party.
- ^ William Trenwith, was a former trade union official and leader of the Victorian Labour Party who was an independent because of his refusal to pledge to vote as directed by the Labour Party.[3]
References
- ^ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1904". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ Constitution Alteration (Senate Elections) 1906 (Cth).
- ^ Scates, B. "Trenwith, William Arthur (Billy) (1846–1925)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- Journals of the Senate. Parliament of Australia. 1904.
- "Members of the Senate since 1901". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
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