Members of the Australian Senate, 1904–1906

Senate composition at 1 January 1904
Protectionist (8)

Labour (14)

Anti-Socialist (12)

Tariff Reform (1)

Independent (1)

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1904 to 1906.^[1] Half of its members were elected at the March 1901 election and had terms deemed to start on 1 January 1901 and finishing on 31 December 1906; the other half were elected at the 16 December 1903 election and had terms starting on 1 January 1904 and finishing on 30 June 1910, extended as a result of the 1906 referendum, which changed Senate terms to finish on 30 June, rather than 31 December.^[2] Parties reflect those acknowledged at the time of the 1904 election^[a]

Senator		State	Term ending	Years in office
Sir Richard Baker	Free Trade	South Australia	31 December 1906	1901–1906
Robert Best	Protectionist	Victoria	30 June 1910	1901–1910
John Clemons	Free Trade	Tasmania	31 December 1906	1901–1914
John Croft	Labour	Western Australia	30 June 1910	1904–1910
Anderson Dawson	Labour	Queensland	31 December 1906	1901–1906
Hugh de Largie	Labour	Western Australia	30 June 1910	1901–1923
Henry Dobson	Tariff Reform	Tasmania	30 June 1910	1901–1910
James Drake	Protectionist	Queensland	31 December 1906	1901–1906
Edward Findley	Labour	Victoria	30 June 1910	1904–1917, 1923–1929
Simon Fraser	Protectionist	Victoria	31 December 1906	1901–1913
Thomas Givens	Labour	Queensland	30 June 1910	1904–1928
Albert Gould	Free Trade	New South Wales	31 December 1906	1901–1917
John Gray	Free Trade	New South Wales	30 June 1910	1904–1910
Robert Guthrie	Labour	South Australia	30 June 1910	1904–1921
George Henderson	Labour	Western Australia	30 June 1910	1904–1923
William Higgs	Labour	Queensland	31 December 1906	1901–1906
John Keating	Protectionist	Tasmania	31 December 1906	1901–1923
James Macfarlane	Free Trade	Tasmania	30 June 1910	1901–1910
Alexander Matheson	Free Trade	Western Australia	31 December 1906	1901–1906
Gregor McGregor	Labour	South Australia	30 June 1910	1901–1914
Edward Millen	Free Trade	New South Wales	31 December 1906	1901–1923
Edward Mulcahy	Protectionist	Tasmania	30 June 1910	1904–1910, 1919–1920
John Neild	Free Trade	New South Wales	30 June 1910	1901–1910
David O'Keefe	Labour	Tasmania	31 December 1906	1901–1906, 1910–1920
George Pearce	Labour	Western Australia	31 December 1906	1901–1938
Thomas Playford	Protectionist	South Australia	31 December 1906	1901–1906
Edward Pulsford	Free Trade	New South Wales	30 June 1910	1901–1910
Staniforth Smith	Free Trade	Western Australia	31 December 1906	1901–1906
James Stewart	Labour	Queensland	30 June 1910	1901–1917
William Story	Labour	South Australia	30 June 1910	1904–1917
James Styles	Protectionist	Victoria	31 December 1906	1901–1906
Sir Josiah Symon	Free Trade	South Australia	31 December 1906	1901–1913
William Trenwith	Independent ^[b]	Victoria	30 June 1910	1904–1910
Harry Turley	Labour	Queensland	30 June 1910	1904–1917
James Walker	Free Trade	New South Wales	31 December 1906	1901–1913
Sir William Zeal	Protectionist	Victoria	31 December 1906	1901–1906

Notes[edit]

^ Prior to the 1906 election the Free Trade Party renamed itself the Anti-Socialist Party.
^ William Trenwith, was a former trade union official and leader of the Victorian Labour Party who was an independent because of his refusal to pledge to vote as directed by the Labour Party.^[3]

References[edit]

^ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1904". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
^ Constitution Alteration (Senate Elections) 1906 (Cth).
^ Scates, B. "Trenwith, William Arthur (Billy) (1846–1925)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 February 2017.

Journals of the Senate. Parliament of Australia. 1904.
"Members of the Senate since 1901". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2008.

[AS-3] Prior to the 1906 election the Free Trade Party renamed itself the Anti-Socialist Party.

[Trenwith-5] William Trenwith, was a former trade union official and leader of the Victorian Labour Party who was an independent because of his refusal to pledge to vote as directed by the Labour Party.^[3]

[1] "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1904". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 24 February 2017.

[2] Constitution Alteration (Senate Elections) 1906 (Cth).

[Trenwith_ADB-4] Scates, B. "Trenwith, William Arthur (Billy) (1846–1925)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 February 2017.

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