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Mr Albert Charles WILLIS (1876 - 1954)

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Date of Birth: 24/05/1876
Place of Birth: Tonyrefail, Wales
Date of Death: 22/04/1954
Place of Death: Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Vice President of Executive Council and Representative of Government 04 Nov 1930 02 Apr 1931 4 months 30 days
Vice President of Executive Council and Representative of Government 27 May 1927 18 Oct 1927 4 months 22 days
Acting Secretary for Mines 27 May 1927 17 Sep 1927 3 months 22 days
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 24 Jun 1925 20 May 1933 7 years 10 months 27 days Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 17 June 1925
Vice President of Executive Council and Representative of Government 17 Jun 1925 26 May 1927 1 year 11 months 10 days Oath taken before Governor.
Political Party Activity
Australian Labor Party (ALP), member of central executive 1916-1919; formed Industrial Socialist Labor Party in 1919, rejoined Labor, president from 1923-1925; expelled in 1933, member of Federal Labor Executive 1934-1936
Community Activity
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Coal miner and union secretary. Educated at Bryn Mawr Board School, Wales. Commenced work in Monmouthshire mines aged ten; bursary to London Labour College and Ruskin College, Oxford, first secretary of Cardiff Workers Educational Association; president of Western District, South Wales Miners' Federation., member of Abertillery Urban District Council and Monmouthshire County Council; ordained as a lay preacher with Church of God 1899; arrived in New South Wales in 1911, worked at Balmain Colliery; president then secretary of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association 1913-1915, elected to wages board 1913, foundation general secretary of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation 1916-1925; vice president of Australian Freedom League in 1912; member of 1917 strike committee, arrested; active in One Big Union movement; foundation member Christian Fellowship Council in 1923; managing director of the Labor Daily from 1926-1931. became Agent General in London 1931-1932; conciliation commissioner and chairman of the Commonwealth Central Coal Authority 1943-1947; author in 1926.
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of James Willis, sinker, and Louisa Morse. Married Alice Maud Parker on 1 October 1901, London, England and had issue, 2 daughters and 1 son. Funeral at Woronora crematorium with Church of England rites.
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