John Grant (Australian politician)
{{Short description|Scottish-born Australian politician}}
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| name = John Grant
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| title = Senator for New South Wales
| term_start = 5 September 1914
| term_end = 30 June 1920
| term_start1 = 1 July 1923
| term_end1 = 19 May 1928
| successor1 = Albert Gardiner
| birth_date = 1857
| birth_place = Abernethy, Scotland
| death_date = {{BirthDeathAge||1857|||1928|5|19|yes}}
| death_place = Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
| nationality = Scottish Australian
| spouse = Maet Anne Grant
| party = Australian Labor Party
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| occupation = Stonemason
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John Grant (1857 – 19 May 1928) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was married to the politician Mary Anne Grant.
Life
Born in Abernethy, he received a primary education before becoming a stonemason. Migrating to the Colony of New South Wales in 1880, he became Secretary of the Stonemasons' Union and a founding member of the New South Wales Labor Party. He served as the NSW ALP's General Secretary.
He married Scottish born Mary Anne Grant (born Kearney) and she was one of the six women elected to the New South Wales Labor Party's executive in January 1906. The other five were Kate Dwyer, Harriet Powell, the 1903 parliamentary candidate Selina Siggins, the American born A. E. Gardiner, Edith Bethel and Maggie Hall.{{Cite web |title=Harriet Powell: Labor Organiser |url=https://www.labourhistory.org.au/hummer/vol-7-no-1/harriet/ |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=Australian Society for the Study of Labour History |language=en-AU}} He and Mary had one child, Frank.
He was elected to the Australian Senate in 1914 as a Labor Senator from New South Wales. Defeated in 1919, he returned to the Senate in 1922, holding the seat until his death in 1928.{{Cite Au Senate|Sen id=john-grant|name=GRANT, John (1857–1928)|first=Geoffrey|last=Hawker|year=2000|access-date=2022-12-31}}{{cite web|last=Carr |first=Adam |title=Australian Election Archive |work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia |year=2008 |accessdate=2008-11-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717093439/http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/ |archivedate=17 July 2007 }}
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Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
Category:Members of the Australian Senate for New South Wales
Category:Members of the Australian Senate
Category:Australian trade unionists
Category:Australian stonemasons
Category:20th-century Australian politicians
Category:British emigrants to the Colony of New South Wales
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