Preceded by New seat Name Jim Page Resigned June 3, 1921 Party Australian Labor Party | Nationality English Australian Died June 3, 1921 Succeeded by James Hunter Role Politician | |
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Occupation Railway worker, unionist | ||
Political party Australian Labor Party | ||
James Page (1861 – 3 June 1921) was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1921, representing the electorate of Maranoa.
Page was born in London, England, and was raised and educated in a Barnardo's Home. He joined the British Army, serving from 1877 to 1883, and fighting in both the Anglo-Zulu War and the First Boer War. He subsequently moved to Australia and worked as a railway ganger on the Central line and as overseer of works for the Barcaldine Divisional Board. He is occasionally reported as having been a shearer and some form of union leader during the 1891 shearers strike; however, this appears to be untrue. He became the proprietor of the Welcome Home Hotel in Barcaldine in 1893, but gave up that lease in 1897 and took over the Exchange Hotel, which he operated until his election to parliament.
In 1901, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in the first federal election, winning the Queensland rural seat of Maranoa for the Labor Party. He held the seat until his death in 1921. Page's funeral was held at St John's Cathedral and he was buried in Toowong Cemetery.