Nationality Scottish Australian Occupation Storekeeper Party Australian Labor Party | Political party Labor Party Died 2 December 1941 | |
Full Name Hugh Cameron McMinn Spouse(s) Margaret Jane Catherwood (m.1892 d.1944) | ||
Hugh Cameron McMinn (1865 - 2 December 1941) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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Biography
McMinn was born in Callander, Perthshire, the son of James McMinn and his wife Agnes (née Cameron). He arrived in Australia when he was about 16 and worked as a storekeeper. After his time in parliament he was an inspector of playgrounds for the education department.
On the 11th May 1892 he married Margaret Jane Catherwood (died 1944) in Brisbane and together had a son and two daughters. McMinn died in December 1941 and was cremated at the Mt Thompson Crematorium.
Public career
After unsuccessfully contesting the state election in 1912, McMinn, for the Labor Party, won the seat of Bulimba at the 1915 Queensland state election. In doing so, he defeated the Queensland Treasurer, Walter Barnes. McMinn only lasted one term in the parliament and lost his seat back to Barnes at the 1918 Queensland state election.