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
| Member for Wollongong-Kembla |
03 Apr 1947 |
28 Oct 1949 |
2 years 6 months 26 days |
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| Member for Wollongong-Kembla |
28 Apr 1944 |
29 Mar 1947 |
2 years 11 months 2 days |
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| Member for Wollongong-Kembla |
10 May 1941 |
24 Apr 1944 |
2 years 11 months 15 days |
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| Member for Illawarra |
04 Mar 1938 |
18 Apr 1941 |
3 years 1 month 15 days |
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| Member for Illawarra |
11 May 1935 |
24 Feb 1938 |
2 years 9 months 14 days |
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| Member for Illawarra |
11 Jun 1932 |
12 Apr 1935 |
2 years 10 months 2 days |
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| Minister for Education |
04 Nov 1930 |
13 May 1932 |
1 year 6 months 10 days |
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| Member for Illawarra |
25 Oct 1930 |
18 May 1932 |
1 year 6 months 24 days |
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| Member for Wollongong |
08 Oct 1927 |
18 Sep 1930 |
2 years 11 months 11 days |
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| Minister of Public Instruction |
27 May 1927 |
18 Oct 1927 |
4 months 22 days |
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| Member for Wollondilly |
30 May 1925 |
07 Sep 1927 |
2 years 3 months 9 days |
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| Member for Wollondilly |
25 Mar 1922 |
18 Apr 1925 |
3 years 25 days |
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| Member for Wollondilly |
20 Mar 1920 |
17 Feb 1922 |
1 year 10 months 29 days |
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| Member for Wollongong |
24 Mar 1917 |
18 Feb 1920 |
2 years 10 months 26 days |
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| Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly |
24 Mar 1917 |
28 Oct 1949 |
32 years 7 months 5 days |
Australian Labor Party (ALP) |
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 of the 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 to Parliament. Active in Miners' Federation. Delegate to Illawarra District Board from 1914 until 1917; to the 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.
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of William Davies, coalminer, and Mary Williams. Married Edith Hartshorn in 1903 and had issue, one son and one daughter.
