- Joseph Cullen
Joseph Francis Cullen (
1 February 1849 –31 March 1917 ), Australian politician, was a Member of Parliament inNew South Wales andWestern Australia .Born in
Jamberoo, New South Wales around 1849, Joseph Cullen was the son of farmer John Cullen and Rebecca Johnstone. One of his brothers, William Cullen, would becomeChief Justice of New South Wales . Joseph Cullen was educated at state schools before attending Camden College inSydney . On18 April 1878 he married Annie Butler, with whom he would have one son and two daughters.Cullen became congregational minister for Windsor, North Sydney, North Willoughby and Watson's Bay. He resigned in 1886, and shortly afterwards purchased and edited a North Sydney newspaper. In 1889 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of St Leonards on a Free Trade ticket. He held the seat until the election of 1894, when he won the seat of Willoughby. The following year he lost Willoughby in an election.In 1904, Cullen emigrated to Western Australia, spending two years on the
Eastern Goldfields . Settling at Katanning, he was owner and editor of the "Great Southern Herald " from 1906. On4 October 1909 , he was elected to theWestern Australian Legislative Council in aby-election for the South East Province. He held the seat until his death at Katanning on31 March 1917 .References
* ____________ "Mr Joseph Francis Cullen (Former Member) "Parliament of New South Wales", [http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/1a5a6d67bdc8c81bca256cc9001c0c28!OpenDocument] .
*Black and Bolton 2001
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.