John Hayes (politician, 1868)

John Hayes

John Blyth Hayes CMG (born April 21, 1868 in Bridgewater , Tasmania , † July 12, 1956 in Launceston , Tasmania) was a politician of the Commonwealth Liberal Party (CLP), the Nationalist Party of Australia and most recently the Liberal Party of Australia , the was Prime Minister of Tasmania between 1922 and 1923 . He was then a member of the Australian Senate from 1923 to 1947 and its President between 1938 and 1941.

Life

MP and Minister

Hayes was elected on January 23, 1913 as a candidate for the Commonwealth Liberal Party in the Bass constituency for the first time to the House of Representatives (Tasmanian House of Assembly) , the lower house of the Tasmanian Parliament, and was a member of this until September 12, 1923.

On April 15, 1916, Hayes was appointed by Prime Minister Walter Lee as Minister of Agriculture for the first time in a government of the state and held this office until August 14, 1923. At the same time, he served between April 15, 1916 and August 4 1919 also as Minister for Lands and Works and was Minister for Public Works from August 5, 1919 to August 14, 1923 after a cabinet reshuffle. In addition, he held the post of Minister for Mines from June 28, 1922 to August 12, 1922 .

General election in 1922 and Prime Minister of Tasmania from 1922 to 1923

In the parliamentary elections of June 10, 1922 there was a massive loss of votes on the part of Lee's Nationalist Party of 14.25 percentage points, so that she got only twelve of the 30 seats in the House of Assembly with 27,816 votes (40.96 percent). However, the lost Australian Labor Party of Joseph Lyons 4.7 percentage points and was awarded with 24,956 votes (36.74 percent) also twelve mandates. The actual election winner and, due to the stalemate, tipped the scales was the Country Party of Australia , newly founded in 1920 , which, with its top candidate Ernest Blyth, received 9,498 votes (13.98 percent) from the stand and provided five members.

Despite surviving a vote of no confidence , Lee resigned on August 12, 1922. Blyth then organized a meeting between the Nationalist Party and the Country Party, which led to the fact that John Hayes was the new Prime Minister on August 12, 1922 and together with the Country Party formed the first coalition government of Tasmania. In this government he continued to serve as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Public Works.

Member and President of the Australian Senate

After a year in office, Hayes resigned as prime minister on August 14, 1923, to take a vacant seat in the Australian Senate on September 12, 1923. Hayes, who had been a member of the Nationalist Party since 1919, served in the Senate for nearly 24 years until June 30, 1947. Most recently he was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia founded in 1945.

As the successor to Patrick Lynch , he became President of the Senate on July 1, 1938 and held this office for three years until his replacement by James Cunningham on June 30, 1941.

For his longstanding political services he was named Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Presidents (Homepage of the Australian Senate)