George Maxwell (Australian politician)
- George Maxwell (Australian politician)
George Arnot Maxwell (30 April 1859 – 25 June 1935) was a barrister and Australian politician.
Maxwell was born in Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland and educated in Fifeshire. He migrated to Australia with his family in 1875. He worked briefly as a jackeroo and then completed his matriculation in Melbourne. He subsequently taught at Melbourne schools while studying arts and law at the University of Melbourne. He was admitted to the Bar in 1891 and became a successful at criminal law and was appointed King's Counsel in 1926. He married Jean Russell Ross in 1896—they had four daughters and one son.[ Australian Dictionary of Biography]
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accessdate=2007-12-18 ] Maxwell ran unsuccessfully for various Victorian Legislative Assembly seats: Collingwood in 1891; Prahran in 1897; Warrnambool in 1900; Carlton in 1902 and Evelyn in 1914. However, he won the Labor-held Australian House of Representatives seat of Fawkner for the Nationalists at the 1917 election. In parliament, he disliked what he saw as the sectionalism of the Country and Labor parties and, following his conscience, he voted against the Bruce-Page government on a number of issues in 1929. He was one of six Nationalists, including Billy Hughes who brought the government down by voting against the maritime industries bill and as a result was unopposed by Labor at the 1929 election. He joined Hughes's Australian Party, but resigned in May 1930 and sat as an Independent until he joined the United Australia Party in 1931.[ ]Maxwell lost sight in one eye in 1920 and most of the sight in the other in 1921, becoming totally blind in 1929. Following his death at home in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury, Fawkener was won by future Prime Minister Harold Holt.[ ] Notes
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NAME = Maxwell, George Arnot
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH = 30 April 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH = Montrose, Angus, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH = 25 June 1935
PLACE OF DEATH = Canterbury, Victoria
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