Nationality Australian | Name John MacDonald | |
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Born 14 February 1880Opotiki, New Zealand ( 1880-02-14 ) Died 17 August 1937(1937-08-17) (aged 57) | ||
John Valentine MacDonald (14 February 1880 – 17 August 1937) was a New Zealand-born Australian politician.
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Early life
Born in Opotiki in New Zealand, MacDonald was educated in New Zealand before becoming a printer. He migrated to Australia in 1897, becoming a journalist and editor; he was editor of the Brisbane Standard in 1913. He was also a founding member of the Australian Journalists' Association.
Politics
On 26 May 1922, he was appointed to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Queensland, filling the casual vacancy caused by the death of Nationalist Senator John Adamson. However, he was defeated in the 1922 election. Following the death of another Nationalist Senator, Thomas Givens, MacDonald was again appointed to the Senate on 1 August 1928 but was defeated again at the 1928 election. MacDonald was finally elected in his own right in the election of 1931, taking his place in the Senate in 1932. He died in 1937, necessitating the appointment of another (in this case, Labor's Ben Courtice) to fill his own casual vacancy.