Allan McDougall explained

Honorific-Prefix:Senator
Allan McDougall
Office:Senator for New South Wales
Term Start:6 December 1922
Term End:14 October 1924
Predecessor:Henry Garling
Successor:Jack Power
Term Start1:1 July 1910
Term End1:30 June 1920
Predecessor1:John Gray
Successor1:Charles Frederick Cox
Birth Date:1857 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Pyrmont, Colony of New South Wales
Death Place:Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality:Australian
Party:Labor

Allan McDougall (2 August 1857 – 14 October 1924) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Australian Senate from 1910 to 1919 and from 1922 until his death in 1924.

McDougall was born in Pyrmont, Sydney and received a primary education before undertaking a boilermaker apprenticeship with the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, later working at Mort's Dock. He was one of the first members of the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders of New South Wales and was heavily involved in the union for many years, serving alternately as president and secretary at various times. He also served as secretary of the Eight Hours Day committee for ten years. A keen sportsman and footballer, he was also patron of the New South Wales League of Wheelmen (a cycling club) and the Glebe District Rugby League Football Club.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

In 1910, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a member of the Labor Party. He was chairman of the Select Committee on Fitzroy Dock and a member of the Joint Committee on Public Accounts. In 1917, he was tried and acquitted for an alleged breach of the War Precautions Act after a speech regarding voting in the conscription referendum.[6] He was defeated in 1919, but was re-elected in 1922. In 1923, he was a member of the Royal Commission on National Insurance. However, he died in office in 1924 from complications of diabetes; he had reportedly been in poor health for some time.[7] [8] He was buried in the Presbyterian section of Rookwood Cemetery.[9]

Notes and References

  1. News: THE SENATE . . XIX . 1564 . New South Wales, Australia . 9 January 1923 . 1 September 2019 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  2. News: Boilermaker to M.P. . . 16,186 . Queensland, Australia . 15 October 1924 . 1 September 2019 . 13 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: SENATOR ALLAN McDOUGALL. . . 33 . 42 . New South Wales, Australia . 15 October 1924 . 1 September 2019 . 18 . National Library of Australia.
  4. News: LABOR PIONEER PASSES AWAY . . 229 . New South Wales, Australia . 15 October 1924 . 1 September 2019 . 1 . National Library of Australia.
  5. News: A LABOR VETERAN. . . XLIII . 15,440 . Western Australia . 16 October 1924 . 1 September 2019 . 10 (THIRD EDITION) . National Library of Australia.
  6. News: SENATOR McDOUGALL ACQUITTED. . . New South Wales, Australia . 12 December 1917 . 1 September 2019 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  7. Web site: Carr . Adam . Australian Election Archive . Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive . 2008 . 2008-11-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081006075129/http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia . 6 October 2008 . dead .
  8. News: SENATOR M'DOUGALL. . . 27,076 . New South Wales, Australia . 15 October 1924 . 1 September 2019 . 12 . National Library of Australia.
  9. News: LATE SENATOR McDOUGALL . . 4353 . New South Wales, Australia . 15 October 1924 . 1 September 2019 . 9 (FINAL EXTRA) . National Library of Australia.