James Whyte Kelly
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|term = 11th
|electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Invercargill}}
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James Whyte Kelly (1855 – 15 December 1938) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician, initially of the Liberal Party but later an Independent Liberal.
Biography
Kelly was born in 1855 at Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. He became an orphan aged 14.{{cite news |title=The New Parliament |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18961210.2.81 |access-date=7 January 2014 |work=Otago Witness |date=10 December 1896 |issue=2232 |page=20}} He learned the trade of a tailor, and married Elizabeth Millar, the daughter of James Millar of Motherwell in Lanarkshire. The couple emigrated in 1875 on the Aldergrove to New Zealand, landing in Port Chalmers in Otago.{{cite book
|editor-last = Scholefield
|editor-first = Guy Hardy
|editor-link = Guy Scholefield
|title = A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : A–L
|volume = I
|year = 1940
|publisher = Department of Internal Affairs
|location = Wellington
|url = https://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v1.pdf
|access-date = 7 January 2014
|page = 454
|archive-date = 9 March 2012
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120309082939/http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v1.pdf
|url-status = dead
}}{{cite news |title=Mr. J. W. Kelly |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19381216.2.11 |access-date=7 January 2014 |work=Auckland Star |date=16 December 1938 |volume=LXIX |issue=297 |page=3}} They later moved south to Invercargill.
He represented the Invercargill electorate in the House of Representatives from 1890.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 |page= 210}} He was in favour of land nationalisation and progressive taxes.{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18901206.2.27.3?query=Kelly&start_date=06-12-1890&end_date=06-12-1890&snippet=true&title=ESD |title= Members's Views |work=Evening Star |via=Papers Past |date= 6 December 1890 }}
In 1895, he broke away from the Liberal Party and became an Independent Liberal. He was defeated in the 1899 election.
From 1892 to 1894, Kelly served as president of the federated New Zealand Workers' Union.{{cite book |last=Martin |first=John E. |date=1987 |title=Tatau Tatau — One Big Union Altogether: The Shearers and the Early Years of the New Zealand Workers' Union |publisher=New Zealand Workers' Union |page=27 |ISBN=0-473-00465-8}}
References
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{{s-bef | before = Henry Feldwick}}
{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Invercargill | years= 1890–1899}}
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Category:New Zealand Liberal Party MPs
Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Category:New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates
Category:Scottish emigrants to New Zealand
Category:19th-century New Zealand politicians
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1899 New Zealand general election
Category:Colony of New Zealand people
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