| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Harry Turley | |
| Office: | President of the Senate |
| Term Start: | 1 July 1910 |
| Term End: | 8 July 1913 |
| Predecessor: | Albert Gould |
| Successor: | Thomas Givens |
| Office2: | Senator for Queensland |
| Term Start2: | 1 January 1904 |
| Term End2: | 30 June 1917 |
| Constituency Am3: | South Brisbane |
| Assembly3: | Queensland Legislative |
| Term Start3: | 6 May 1893 |
| Term End3: | 11 March 1899 |
| Predecessor3: | Abraham Luya |
| Successor3: | Abraham Luya |
| Term Start4: | 22 July 1899 |
| Term End4: | 11 March 1902 |
| Predecessor4: | Abraham Luya |
| Successor4: | Alec Lamont |
| Birth Date: | 1859 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Gloucestershire, England |
| Death Place: | South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Restingplace: | South Brisbane Cemetery |
| Birthname: | Joseph Henry Lewis Turley |
| Nationality: | English Australian |
| Spouse: | Mary Smith (m.1886 d.1947) |
| Party: | Australian Labor Party |
| Occupation: | Waterside worker |
Joseph Henry Lewis Turley (24 April 1859 - 5 June 1929) was an English-born Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and an Australian Senator.
Turley was born on 24 April 1859 in Gloucester, England. He was the son of Agnes (née Oliver) and Charles Turley; his father was a master shoemaker.[1] [2]
Turley was educated in Brixham and went to sea at a young age. He arrived in Australia in 1879 and found work in Brisbane as a wharf labourer. He joined the Wharf Labourers' Union and eventually became secretary and president. During the 1890 maritime dispute, he was a member of the intercolonial defence committee organised by William Spence.[1] He also represented the Queensland Shearers' Union as a delegate to negotiating conferences in Sydney during the 1891 shearers' strike.[2]
In 1893, Harry Turley was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for South Brisbane,[3] serving as Home Secretary in Anderson Dawson's short-lived Labor Government in 1899. In 1902 he left the Assembly.
Turley first stood for federal parliament at the inaugural federal election in 1901, unsuccessfully standing for the ALP in the House of Representatives seat of Oxley. He was elected to the Senate at the 1903 federal election.[2]
On 1 July 1910, he was appointed President of the Senate, a position he held until 8 July 1913. He remained a Senator until his defeat in 1917.[2]
Turley married Mary Smith in 1886, with whom he had four children.[2]
After leaving politics, Turley became a shipping master with the Queensland Harbours and Rivers Department. Turley died in 1929 and was buried in South Brisbane Cemetery.[4] [5]