Edgar Hampton Warren

Edgar Hampton Warren (28 July 1865 – 20 May 1946) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Flinders from 1907 to 1910 representing the Farmers and Producers Political Union.[1]

Warren was born at Port Augusta. His parents moved to Adelaide as a child, and he was educated at Grote Street Public School. He moved to Willowie with his mother and stepfather at the age of nine. He subsequently qualified as a schoolteacher and taught for three years before taking up land at Yarrah. From 1889 until his election, "apart from a short interval", he was a storekeeper at Quorn. He was secretary of the local branch of the Liberal and Democratic Union and secretary and chairman of the Arden Vale Agricultural Bureau.[2][3]

He entered the House of Assembly at a 1907 by-election in Flinders, retaining the seat for the Liberal and Democratic Union after the death of Arthur Hugh Inkster.[4][5] In 1908, he became general secretary of the party.[6] He was Government Whip under Archibald Peake from 1909 to 1910.[7] Warren was defeated at the 1910 state election.[8]

He was the inaugural organiser of the Liberal Union from its 1910 inception until 1912, at which time he went to Western Australia as the south-east organiser for the Liberal League there.[9][10] He later returned to South Australia and in 1918 became general secretary of the Farmers and Settlers Association.[11]

References
  1. Edgar Warren: SA Parliament
  2. "TOPICS OF THE DAY". The Advertiser. XLIX (15, 127). Adelaide. 12 April 1907. p. 4. Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "THE FLINDERS ELECTION". The Register. LXXII (18, 889). Adelaide. 29 May 1907. p. 6. Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Assembly By-Election in Flinders District". Petersburg Times. XVIII (623). South Australia. 4 June 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "District of Flinders". Quorn Mercury. XII (624). South Australia. 30 April 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "LIBERAL AND DEMOCRATIC UNION". The Express and Telegraph. XLV (13, 502) (4 O'CLOCK ed.). South Australia. 11 September 1908. p. 6. Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836-2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  8. "FLINDERS ELECTION". Daily Herald. 1 (68). Adelaide. 24 May 1910. p. 6. Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. "THE LIBERAL UNION". The Express and Telegraph. XLIX (14, 664). South Australia. 15 July 1912. p. 4 (5 o'clock.). Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. "Liberal League". Great Southern Leader. V (268). Western Australia. 25 October 1912. p. 5. Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. "CONCERNING PEOPLE". The Register. LXXXIII (22, 463). Adelaide. 6 November 1918. p. 6. Retrieved 5 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.


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