Mr William (2) DAVIES (1883 - 1956)

Date of Birth: 01/01/1883
Place of Birth: Abertillery, Wales
Date of Death: 17/02/1956
Place of Death: Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position	Start	End	Period	Parliament	Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly	24 Mar 1917	28 Oct 1949	32yr(s) 7mth(s) 5day(s)		Australian Labor Party (ALP)
Member for Wollongong	24 Mar 1917	18 Feb 1920	2yr(s) 10mth(s) 26day(s)	24th (1917 - 1920)
Member for Wollondilly	20 Mar 1920	17 Feb 1922	1yr(s) 10mth(s) 29day(s)	25th (1920 - 1922)
Member for Wollondilly	25 Mar 1922	18 Apr 1925	3yr(s) 25day(s)	26th (1922 - 1925)
Member for Wollondilly	30 May 1925	7 Sep 1927	2yr(s) 3mth(s) 9day(s)	27th (1925 - 1927)
Member for Wollongong	8 Oct 1927	18 Sep 1930	2yr(s) 11mth(s) 11day(s)	28th (1927 - 1930)
Member for Illawarra	25 Oct 1930	18 May 1932	1yr(s) 6mth(s) 24day(s)	29th (1930 - 1932)
Member for Illawarra	11 Jun 1932	12 Apr 1935	2yr(s) 10mth(s) 2day(s)	30th (1932 - 1935)
Member for Illawarra	11 May 1935	24 Feb 1938	2yr(s) 9mth(s) 14day(s)	31st (1935 - 1938)
Member for Illawarra	4 Mar 1938	18 Apr 1941	3yr(s) 1mth(s) 15day(s)	32nd (1938 - 1941)
Member for Wollongong-Kembla	10 May 1941	24 Apr 1944	2yr(s) 11mth(s) 15day(s)	33rd (1941 - 1944)
Member for Wollongong-Kembla	28 Apr 1944	29 Mar 1947	2yr(s) 11mth(s) 2day(s)	34th (1944 - 1947)
Member for Wollongong-Kembla	3 Apr 1947	28 Oct 1949	2yr(s) 6mth(s) 26day(s)	35th (1947 - 1950)
Minister of Public Instruction	27 May 1927	18 Oct 1927	4mth(s) 22day(s)
Minister for Education	4 Nov 1930	13 May 1932	1yr(s) 6mth(s) 10day(s)

Political Party Activity

Australian Labor Party (ALP). Secretary of the Parliamentary Party in 1933.

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Miner. Educated to primary school level. Became a trapper in mines at age twelve, later a miner; branch secretary. Miners' Union and delegate to South Wales Miners' conference; attended night school, won Welsh miners scholarship to summer school, Oxford University; became a Methodist lay preacher. Arrived in New South Wales in 1912, settled in the Wollongong area; employed for a year in the Federated Coke Works, as a railway worker and construction worker; returned to mining at Scarborough Colliery, South Clifton tunnel until election at Parliament; active in Miners' Federation., delegate to Illawarra District Board from 1914 until 1917, to central council from 1916 until 1917; Member of the Coal Tribunal; joined Australian Industrial Christian Fellowship Council in 1923; visited United Kingdom in 1932

Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held

Member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Member of the House of Representatives for Cunningham 1949 until 1956.

Personal

Son of William Davies, coalminer, and Mary Williams. Married Edith Hartshorn in 1903 and had issue, one son and one daughter.

Additional Information

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