John Gillies (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About John Gillies (Australian politician)
- John Gillies (6 March 1844 – 23 September 1911) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born in Airdrie in Lanarkshire to tailor John Gillies and Janet Mathieson.
- The family emigrated to Australia around 1848, where John was educated privately and apprenticed to a compositor at the age of thirteen.
- On 11 March 1865 he married Margaret Frost Mair; they would have eight children.
- By 1874 he was part owner of a compositing business, and he was active in the Maitland area.
- In 1891 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for West Maitland.
- He was in and out of the Free Trade Party for the next decade, and by 1904 he was running as a Progressive before joining the Liberals in 1907.
- Re-elected as an independent Liberal in 1910, he died at Maitland in 1911.
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