Edmund Dwyer-Gray

The title of this article is ambiguous. For Irish journalists and politicians with a similar name, see Edmund Dwyer Gray (1845–1888).

Edmund Dwyer-Gray (* 2. April 1870 in Dublin , Ireland ; † 6. December 1945 in Hobart , Tasmania ) was an Irish- Australian politicians of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), the short period from June to December 1939 Prime Minister of Tasmania was .

Life

Dwyer-Gray was a son of the Irish journalist and politician Edmund Dwyer Gray , who was, among other things, Lord Mayor of Dublin and a member of the House of Commons . His paternal grandfather was John Gray , who from 1865 to 1875 the constituency Kilkenny City in the House of Commons represented, while his maternal grandmother Caroline Chisholm was a British philanthropist and social reformer who for their work in Australia as working on a private colonization program known has been.

As a candidate for the Australian Labor Party on May 30, 1928, in the Denison constituency, he was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Representatives (Tasmanian House of Assembly) , the lower house of the Tasmanian Parliament, and was a member of this until his death on December 6, 1945.

On June 26, 1934, Dwyer-Gray was appointed by Prime Minister Albert Ogilvie as Minister for the Administration of the Agricultural Bank (Minister administering the Agricultural Bank) for the first time in a government, but held this office only a few weeks until August 6, 1934. Later He served from March 23 to September 14, 1938 as Minister of Transport in Ogilvies government.

As a successor to Ogilvie, Dwyer-Gray finally became Prime Minister himself on June 11, 1939 and held this office until his replacement by Robert Cosgrove on December 18, 1939. In his cabinet he then took over the office of Finance Minister (Treasurer) and held this until to his death.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Parliament of Tasmania
• Ministers - House of Assembly - 1856 to 1950