Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1915–1918

This is a list of members of the 20th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1915 to 1918, as elected at the 1915 state election held on 22 May 1915.[1]

The election was a landslide for the Labor Party, with the previous premier Digby Denham and many of the Denham Ministry losing their parliamentary seats.

The members elected with the support of the Queensland Farmers' Union organised as the Country Party.

Unlike in most other states at this time, the Labor Party in Queensland did not split over the conscription issue; however, the former Liberal and Country members largely joined the National Party.

Name Party Electorate Term in office
John Adamson[4]Labor/IndependentRockhampton1907–1909; 1911–1917
John AppelCountryAlbert1908–1929
Thomas ArmfieldLaborMusgrave1915–1920
William Drayton ArmstrongLiberalLockyer1893–1904; 1907–1918
George Philip BarberLaborBundaberg1901–1935
George Powell BarnesLiberalWarwick1908–1935
Percy BayleyCountryPittsworth1915–1920
William BebbingtonCountryDrayton1912–1923
Ernest BellLiberalFassifern1913–1930
William BertramLaborMaree1912–1929
Charles BookerLiberalWide Bay1909–1918
David Bowman[2]LaborFortitude Valley1899–1902; 1904–1916
Thomas BridgesLiberalNundah1896–1907; 1909–1918
George CarterLaborPort Curtis1915–1920, 1923–1929
Charles CollinsLaborBowen1909–1912, 1915–1936
Frank CooperLaborBremer1915–1946
Bernard CorserLiberalBurnett1912–1928
Harry CoyneLaborWarrego1908–1923
Thomas DunstanLaborGympie1915–1929, 1935–1953
Hon John FihellyLaborPaddington1912–1922
Thomas FoleyLaborMundingburra1909–1920
Frank Forde[4]LaborRockhampton1917–1922, 1955–1957
James ForsythLiberalMurrumba1899–1907; 1909–1918
Edgar FreeLaborSouth Brisbane1915–1920
John GildayLaborIthaca1912–1926
William GilliesLaborEacham1912–1925
David GledsonLaborIpswich1915–1929, 1932–1949
Francis GraysonLiberal/IndependentCunningham1904–1920
Donald GunnLiberalCarnarvon1907–1920
William Hamilton[1]LabourGregory1899–1915
Herbert HardacreLabourLeichhardt1893–1919
Harry HartleyLaborFitzroy1915–1929
William HartleyLaborKurilpa1915–1918
Robert HodgeCountryNanango1902–1904; 1909–1920
John McEwan HunterLaborMaranoa1907–1919
John HuxhamLaborBuranda1908–1909, 1912–1924
Alfred Jones[3]LaborMaryborough1904–1909, 1915–1917,
1922–1932
Thomas Llewellyn JonesLaborOxley1915–1918
Mick KirwanLaborBrisbane1912–1932
Edward LandLaborBalonne1904–1927
William LloydLaborEnoggera1915–1920, 1923–1929
James LarcombeLaborKeppel1912–1929, 1932–1956
William LennonLaborHerbert1907–1920
Edward MacartneyLiberalToowong1900–1908; 1909–1920
Hon William McCormackLaborCairns1912–1930
Peter McLachlanLaborMerthyr1908–1912, 1915–1920,
1923–1929
Hugh McMinnLaborBulimba1915–1918
Herbert McPhailLaborWindsor1915–1918
John May[5]LaborFlinders1907–1917
Arthur MooreCountryAubigny1915–1941
Godfrey MorganCountryMurilla1909–1938
William MurphyIndependentBurke1904–1907; 1908–1918
James O'SullivanLaborKennedy1909–1920
John PayneLaborMitchell1905–1928
Jens PetersonLaborNormanby1915–1935
Andrew Lang PetrieLiberalToombul1893–1926
George Pollock[1]LaborGregory1915–1939
Colin RankinLiberalBurrum1905–1918
Robert RobertsLiberalEast Toowoomba1907–1934
Daniel RyanLaborTownsville1915–1920
Henry RyanLaborCook1915–1929
Hon T. J. RyanLaborBarcoo1909–1919
William Forgan SmithLaborMackay1915–1942
Henry Plantagenet SomersetLiberalStanley1904–1920
Henry StevensLiberalRosewood1911–1918
James StodartLiberalLogan1896–1918
James StopfordLaborMount Morgan1915–1936
Edward SwayneLiberalMirani1907–1935
Hon Ted TheodoreLaborChillagoe1909–1925
James TolmieLiberalToowoomba1901–1907; 1909–1918
William VowlesLiberalDalby1911–1926
Harry WalkerLiberalCooroora1907–1947
David Weir[3]LaborMaryborough1917–1929
William WellingtonLaborCharters Towers1915–1939
Thomas Wilson[2]LaborFortitude Valley1916–1933
Vern WinstanleyLaborQueenton1908–1932
1 On 10 July 1915, William Hamilton, the Labor member for Gregory, was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council. Labor candidate George Pollock was elected unopposed at the resulting by-election on 18 August 1915.
2 On 25 February 1916, David Bowman, the Labor member for Fortitude Valley, died. Labor candidate Thomas Wilson won the resulting by-election on 1 April 1916.
3 On 15 February 1917, Alfred Jones, the Labor member for Maryborough, was appointed to the Legislative Council. Labor candidate David Weir won the resulting by-election on 31 March 1917.
4 John Adamson, the member for Rockhampton, left the Labor Party in 1916 and from then on, sat as an Independent. On 21 March 1917, he resigned to contest an Australian Senate seat for Queensland at the 1917 federal election as an Independent Nationalist. Labor candidate Frank Forde won the resulting by-election on 12 May 1917.
5 On 29 December 1917, John May, the Labor member for Flinders, died. No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1918 state election.

References
  1. "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  • Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.

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