Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1917–1919 explained

This is a list of the members of the Australian House of Representatives in the Seventh Australian Parliament, which was elected at the 1917 election on 5 May 1917.

Member	Party		Electorate	State	In office
Percy Abbott				New England	NSW	1913–1919
Frank Anstey				Bourke	Vic	1910–1934
William Archibald				Hindmarsh	SA	1910–1919
Llewellyn Atkinson				Wilmot	Tas	1906–1929
Fred Bamford				Herbert	Qld	1901–1925
James Bayley				Oxley	Qld	1917–1931
Sir Robert Best				Kooyong	Vic	1910–1922
Arthur Blakeley				Darling	NSW	1917–1934
James Boyd				Henty	Vic	1913–1919
Frank Brennan				Batman	Vic	1911–1931, 1934–1949
Stanley Bruce				Flinders	Vic	1918–1929, 1931–1933
Reginald Burchell				Fremantle	WA	1913–1922
James Catts				Cook	NSW	1906–1922
John Chanter				Riverina	NSW	1901–1903, 1904–1913, 1914–1922
Austin Chapman				Eden-Monaro	NSW	1901–1926
Matthew Charlton				Hunter	NSW	1910–1928
Michael Considine			/Independent	Barrier	NSW	1917–1922
Joseph Cook				Parramatta	NSW	1901–1921
Edward Corser				Wide Bay	Qld	1915–1928
Franc Falkiner				Hume	NSW	1913–1914, 1917–1919
James Fenton				Maribyrnong	Vic	1910–1934
William Finlayson				Brisbane	Qld	1910–1919
William Fleming				Robertson	NSW	1913–1922
Sir John Forrest^[1]				Swan	WA	1901–1918
Richard Foster				Wakefield	SA	1909–1928
James Fowler				Perth	WA	1901–1922
William Gibson				Corangamite	Vic	1918–1929, 1931–1934
Paddy Glynn				Angas	SA	1901–1919
Henry Gregory				Dampier	WA	1913–1940
Littleton Groom				Darling Downs	Qld	1901–1929, 1931–1936
Edward Heitmann				Kalgoorlie	WA	1917–1919
William Higgs				Capricornia	Qld	1910–1922
William Hill				Echuca	Vic	1919–1934
Charles Howroyd^[2]				Darwin	Tas	1917
Billy Hughes				Bendigo	Vic	1901–1952
Sir William Irvine^[3]				Flinders	Vic	1906–1918
Jens Jensen			/Independent	Bass	Tas	1910–1919
Elliot Johnson				Lang	NSW	1903–1928
Edmund Jowett				Grampians	Vic	1917–1922
Willie Kelly				Wentworth	NSW	1903–1919
William Laird Smith				Denison	Tas	1910–1922
Hector Lamond				Illawarra	NSW	1917–1922
John Leckie				Indi	Vic	1917–1919
John Lister				Corio	Vic	1917–1929
John Livingston				Barker	SA	1906–1922
John Lynch				Werriwa	NSW	1914–1919
George Mackay				Lilley	Qld	1917–1934
William Mahony				Dalley	NSW	1915–1927
William Maloney				Melbourne	Vic	1904–1940
Chester Manifold^[4]				Corangamite	Vic	1901–1903, 1913–1918
Walter Massy-Greene				Richmond	NSW	1910–1922
James Mathews				Melbourne Ports	Vic	1906–1931
George Maxwell				Fawkner	Vic	1917–1935
Charles McDonald				Kennedy	Qld	1901–1925
Charles McGrath				Ballarat	Vic	1913–1919, 1920–1934
William McWilliams				Franklin	Tas	1903–1922, 1928–1929
Samuel Nicholls				Macquarie	NSW	1917–1922
Richard Orchard				Nepean	NSW	1913–1919
Jim Page				Maranoa	Qld	1901–1921
Albert Palmer^[5]				Echuca	Vic	1906–1919
Henry Pigott				Calare	NSW	1913–1919
Alexander Poynton				Grey	SA	1901–1922
Edward Riley				South Sydney	NSW	1910–1931
Arthur Rodgers				Wannon	Vic	1913–1922, 1925–1929
Granville Ryrie				North Sydney	NSW	1911–1927
Carty Salmon^[6]				Grampians	Vic	1901–1913, 1915–1917
Sydney Sampson				Wimmera	Vic	1906–1919
Hugh Sinclair				Moreton	Qld	1906–1919
Bruce Smith			/Independent	Parkes	NSW	1901–1919
William Spence				Darwin	Tas	1901–1917, 1917–1919
William Story				Boothby	SA	1904–1917 (S), 1917–1922
John Thomson				Cowper	NSW	1906–1919
Frank Tudor				Yarra	Vic	1901–1922
Con Wallace				West Sydney	NSW	1917–1919
David Watkins				Newcastle	NSW	1901–1935
William Watt				Balaclava	Vic	1914–1929
William Webster				Gwydir	NSW	1903–1919
John West				East Sydney	NSW	1910–1931
George Wise				Gippsland	Vic	1906–1913, 1914–1922
George Edwin Yates				Adelaide	SA	1914–1919, 1922–1931

Notes

1. Forrest died in 1918, and was succeeded by Edwin Corboy (Labor) at the resulting by-election on 26 October 1918.
2. Howroyd died on 10 May 1917, just five days after the election, and was succeeded by William Spence, (Nationalist), the defeated MP for the NSW seat of Darling, at the resulting by-election on 30 June 1917.
3. Irvine resigned in 1918, and was succeeded by Stanley Bruce (Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 11 May 1918.
4. Manifold died in 1918, and was succeeded by William Gibson (Victorian Farmers Union) at the resulting by-election on 14 December 1918.
5. Palmer died in 1919, and was succeeded by William Hill (Victorian Farmers Union) at the resulting by-election on 20 September 1919.
6. Salmon died in 1917, and was succeeded by Edmund Jowett (Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 27 October 1917.