Allan McLean

Allan McLean

Allan McLean (* 3. February 1840 , † 13. July 1911 in Albert Park , Melbourne ) was an Australian liberal politicians of the Protectionist Party , which from 1899 to 1900 of the 19th Prime Minister of Victoria and 1901-1906 member of the Australian House of Representatives was .

Life

Sheep farmers, entrepreneurs and local politicians

McLean arrived in Port Phillip as immigrants with his parents Charles and Anne McLean in 1842 and grew up on their parents' farm in Gippsland , where his father settled as a rancher. He received his education from private tutors and at the state school in Tarraville . After a short time in the daily newspaper Gippsland Times had worked, he bought around 1870 own sheep farm in Lowlands at Sale . In 1872 he founded the warehouse and station agency A. McLean & Co. in Maffra , which he ran with his brother Norman McLean and later with his son. In the following years branches opened in Traralgon , Bairnsdale , Warragul , Mirboo and finally in Melbourne .

Shortly afterwards he began his political career in local politics as a member of the Maffra municipal council, to which he belonged between 1873 and 1880 and of which he was president three times. In addition, he became a partner of Matthew Macalister and built up with this company in numerous cities. However, the Melbourne , McLean, Macalister & Company branch was eventually taken over by the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company . In addition, McLean, who was also director of the Perpetual Trustees Co., was instrumental in founding the Municipal Association of Victoria and the founding of the sugar factory in Maffra, which now houses the Sugar Beet Museum in the Port of Maffra Park .

Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister

In the election in May 1880, McLean was elected as a Liberal candidate for the Protectionist Party in the constituency of North Gippsland for the first time to a member of the Legislative Assembly , the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria. In the election in March 1889 he was then re-elected for the constituency of Gippsland North and represented the interests of this constituency in the legislative assembly until his resignation in May 1901. In 1890 he was a member of the Standing Commission for the Railways.

On November 5, 1890, McLean was appointed by the national liberal Prime Minister James Munro for the first time to the government of the state of Victoria and took over the office of Minister for Agriculture there until April 22, 1891 , before he then took over the office of Chief Secretary of the Cabinet and exercised this under Munro's successor William Shiel until January 23, 1893. At the same time he also served as President of the Board of Land and Works from November 5, 1890 to January 23, 1893 and as Chairman of the Commissioner for Crown Lands and Survey) .

Under Prime Minister George Turner , he held from September 27, 1894 to April 14, 1898 from the office of Minister without Office (Minister without Office) .

Prime Minister of Victoria 1899-1900 and Member of the Australian House of Representatives

On December 5, 1899, McLean succeeded George Turner as Prime Minister of Victoria and remained in this post before he was replaced by Turner on November 19, 1900. In addition, he took over in his cabinet from December 5, 1899 to November 19, 1900 the office of chief secretary of the cabinet.

In the first parliamentary election in Australia on March 29, 1901 , McLean was elected as a candidate of the Protectionist Party to the Australian House of Representatives and, after his re-election, represented the unopposed in the election of December 16, 1903 until he was defeated on December 12, 1906 Gippsland constituency , where he most recently joined the Free Trade Party .

His first marriage to Margaret B. Shinnock in Stratford in 1866 had five sons and two daughters. In 1885 he married Mrs. Linton Macarthur in Port Melbourne .

publication

• Rural Poems , 1888

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Parliament of Victoria (accessed 6 June 2015)
• Biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography