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Scaddan became a keen unionist, and on 28 June 1904 he contested the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Ivanhoe, partly because he was having difficulty securing continuous employment, and partly also because of an interest in economic affairs.
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Scaddan and became
At the February 1983 state election, he became the state's 23rd premier ( and its third youngest after John Scaddan and Newton Moore ), ending almost nine years of conservative coalition government which had commenced under Sir Charles Court, and was completed by Ray O ' Connor ( 1982 – 1983 ).
On the retirement of party leader Thomas Bath in August 1910, Scaddan became leader of the Labor Party, and thus also Leader of the Opposition.
The Labor party won an overwhelming majority, and on 7 October 1911 Scaddan became Premier of Western Australia.
On 27 July 1916, following a successful want of confidence motion on the floor of the Assembly, Scaddan resigned as Premier and became Opposition Leader once again.
Scaddan became caught up in the conscription crisis which split the Labor Party nationally.
Scaddan and on
In 1900, Scaddan married Elizabeth Fauckner ( or Fawkner ) in Boulder, who died from Bright's disease on 21 September 1902, and in 1904 he married Henrietta Edwards.
Scaddan resigned as premier on 27 July 1916, and Liberal leader Frank Wilson took office.
He failed to win the seat, but the Labor member who had won Brown Hill-Ivanhoe, John Lutey, resigned it before being sworn in, and Scaddan was re-elected to Brown Hill-Ivanhoe on 7 October 1916.
Scaddan was appointed Minister for Mines and Railways in Lefroy's Nationalist government on 28 June 1917, but Lutey defeated him in the ministerial by-election.
From 1927 on, Scaddan worked as a stock, farm and estate agent.
Lutey subsequently resigned Brownhill-Ivanhoe on 15 September, not having been sworn in, to allow Scaddan to reclaim the seat.
The election at which the seat was created, held on 3 October 1911, swept Labor to power in Western Australia, and Scaddan was shortly thereafter sworn in as Premier.
Scaddan opted to resign his seat on 8 August in order to contest one of the incoming ministers, Robert Robinson in Canning.
However, upon Scaddan's narrow loss in Canning, Lutey resigned from the seat on 15 September 1916 before being sworn in to allow Scaddan to regain his seat, which he did at the resulting by-election on 7 October 1916 against two minor-party candidates.
Scaddan was appointed as a minister in the new government on 28 June 1917 and had to resign and contest a by-election.
A very hostile campaign followed, led by the Westralian Worker newspaper and by McCallum himself, and on 21 July 1917, Scaddan was defeated by John Lutey, who claimed the victory as a triumph of principles over men.
The Hall was officially opened on 20 April 1912 by Premier of Western Australia, and former Trades Hall secretary John Scaddan.
Scaddan and June
On 25 June 1919, Mitchell reshuffled his government's portfolios, and Scaddan was appointed Minister for Mines, Industries, Forests and Police ; and Minister for Railways.
Scaddan and 1904
Its first member, who had previously been the member for Ivanhoe since 1904, was Opposition Leader John Scaddan.
Scaddan and contested
In September 1917, Scaddan contested Albany as the National Labor candidate, but was again defeated.
Scaddan unsuccessfully contested the seat of Leederville in the general elections of March 1927.
On 19 August 1916, he contested the Legislative Assembly seat of Brownhill-Ivanhoe in a by-election, after the incumbent John Scaddan resigned the seat to contest the seat of Canning in a ministerial by-election.
Two months later he contested Brownhill-Ivanhoe in a ministerial by-election, this time in opposition to Scaddan, who had joined the Nationalist Party.
Scaddan and Western
The Scaddan government and the conscription crisis, 1911-17: aspects of Western Australia's political history ( thesis ).
John Scaddan, CMG ( 4 August 1876 – 21 November 1934 ), popularly known as " Happy Jack ", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October 1911 until 27 July 1916.
The town of Scaddan located along the Esperance Branch Railway in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia is named after John Scaddan.
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Scaddan and Australian
John Scaddan was born in Moonta, South Australia, into a Cornish Australian family.
On about 10 April 1917, Scaddan resigned from the Australian Labor Party.
The only Member for Ivanhoe was John Scaddan of the Australian Labor Party.
Scaddan and seat
Scaddan easily won his seat, which had been renamed Brown Hill-Ivanhoe after a redistribution.
On regaining his seat, Scaddan resumed as Leader of the Opposition.
In the April 1933 general elections, Scaddan lost his seat and the Mitchell government was defeated.
Scaddan and was
About 1777, she was painted by the youthful John Opie ( 1761 – 1807 ), and in 1781 an engraving of her after Robert Scaddan was published.
Scaddan was re-elected unopposed in the election of October 1905, and for the next four years served as party secretary.
Scaddan's government is perhaps most remembered for its policy of setting up state owned enterprises, termed state socialism by Scaddan, although it was not really state socialism.
Scaddan then asked the Governor Sir Harry Barron for a dissolution of parliament, but was refused.
On 17 May 1919, Scaddan was appointed Colonial Secretary and Minister for Railways in James Mitchell's government, despite not being a member of either house of parliament.
This left the government with only 24 seats in a house of 50, and shortly afterwards the Scaddan government was defeated and forced to resign.
Scaddan and .
The two merged in April-May 1917, with former Premier John Scaddan as their leader.
Scaddan initially worked underground as a miner, but after gaining his engine-driver's certificate, he operated a stationary engine at the pit head.
Scaddan led a vigorous, radical, reforming government.
Scaddan remained Labor leader after his defeat.
As a conscriptionist, Scaddan had supported Hughes.
With the May 1917 elections approaching, Scaddan found himself in the untenable position of supporting the non-Labor Prime Minister Hughes instead of the Labor Party leader Frank Tudor.
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