Crawford, James
Personal
Birth Date:
4 March 1870 (Woonona, New South Wales)
Death Date:
28 December 1916 (Clermont, Queensland)
Parents:
James Crawford and Ellen (nee Simpson)
Family:
Myra Clarke in 1905
Education:
Woonona State School
Religion:
Presbyterian
Career
Coalminer, Wollongong, 1883; Railway worker, Narrandera, 1888; Barrister and Solicitor, Clermont; Member, Royal Commission into the Mount Morgan disaster, 1908
Parliamentary Representation
House | Party | Electorate | From | To | Elected/Departure Reason |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assembly | ALP | Fitzroy | 2 Oct 1909 | 27 Apr 1912 | |
Assembly | MIN | Mount Morgan | 27 Apr 1912 | 22 May 1915 |
Additional Information
Notes:
President, Otago Miners' Union; Vice-president, Australian Workers' Association, Cobar, New South Wales; Secretary, Fitzroy Miners' Union. Drowned in the Clermont floods, 1916
Sources:
Image sourced The Queenslander, 13 January 1917, p.25; Waterson, DB, A Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament: 1860-1929, 2nd revised edition (Sydney: Casket Publications, 2001); Hughes, Colin A and BD Graham, Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1890-1964, (Canberra: ANU, Department of Political Science, 1974)
[Last Modified: Wednesday, 14 June 2017]