Everything about John Arthur Australian Politician totally explained
John Andrew Arthur (
15 August 1875 –
9 December 1914) was an
Australian politician and briefly
Minister for External Affairs.
Arthur was born in
Castlemaine, Victoria, son of a goldminer and spent his childhood in several Victorian goldmining towns. He won a state scholarship allowing him to attend Grenville College,
Ballarat for three years. He graduated from the
University of Melbourne with a
Bachelor of Arts in 1895. He was a brilliant student and competed a
Master of Arts in 1897, a
Bachelor of Laws in 1898 and a
Master of Laws in 1901. He became a tutor at
Queen's College in logic and philosophy, political economy and history, and law and was admitted to the
bar in 1903. He became a prominent lawyer in the new federal courts, especially the
Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration and represented the Agricultural Implement Makers' Union in the
Harvester case which led to the
basic wage concept that was the basis of wage setting in Australia until the 1990s.
Political career
In
1913 election he just beat the incumbent
John Quick to win the
Australian House of Representatives seat of
Bendigo for the
Australian Labor Party. He was noted for his contribution to parliamentary debates and continued his career as an industrial advocate, often travelling from the then seat of the parliament in
Melbourne to
Sydney to argue cases. Campaigning for the
1914 election, combined with his court work undermined his health and following the election of the
Watson government he was confined to bed. He attended
caucus on
17 September and was elected to the ministry and sworn in as Minister for External Affairs on the same day. He was forced back to bed and died on
9 December 1914 of
kidney disease at his home in the Melbourne suburb of
Parkville. He was survived by his wife, two daughters and two sons.
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