Harry Buxton

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Henry Richard (Harry) Buxton (13 May 1876 – 23 June 1965) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1918 to 1921, representing the electorate of Burra Burra.{{Cite SA-parl |pid=3666 |name=Mr Henry Buxton |former=yes |access-date=12 November 2022}}{{cite book | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/31236454 | title=Labor's thirty years' record in South Australia : a short history of the Labor movement in South Australia, including biographical sketches of leading members, 1893-1923. | publisher=Daily Herald | year=1923 | location=Adelaide | pages=79}}

Buxton was born at Barossa, the son of H. R. Buxton, a long-time chief guard of the Yatala Labour Prison.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35181031 |title=Chamber Of Building Industries. |newspaper=The Advertiser |date=24 November 1932 |access-date=29 May 2015 |page=10 |via=Trove}}{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89136503 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Chronicle |date=22 February 1919 |access-date=29 May 2015 |page=31 |via=Trove}}{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107258231 |title=Labor's standard bearers |newspaper=Daily Herald |date=28 March 1921 |access-date=29 May 2015 |page=6 |via=Trove}} He worked as a gardener and at the Islington Railway Workshops before entering politics. He was elected to the House of Assembly at the 1918 election, when along with Labor candidate Mick O'Halloran and Liberal George Jenkins he swept out the three incumbent Farmers and Settlers Association MPs for Burra Burra. It marked the first time Labor had elected two MPs in the electorate.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164153501 |title=The country |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |date=11 May 1918 |access-date=29 May 2015 |page=10 |via=Trove}} Buxton and O'Halloran were defeated at the 1921 election, succeeded by one Liberal MP and one Country Party MP.{{cite book |url=https://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf |title=Statistical Register of the Parliament of South Australia |publisher=Parliament of South Australia |access-date=29 May 2015 |archive-date=11 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311113513/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Buxton moved to Victoria after his election defeat, and died in 1965.