Joshua Mills (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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- Joshua "Joe" Mills (13 January 1859 – 21 March 1943) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1918 to 1924.
- Prominent in the state's Murchison and Mid West regions, he served a single six-year term in parliament. Mills was born at Narra Tarra, a locality on the Chapman River, near Geraldton.
- Before standing for parliament, he worked variously as an inspector of stock, a sheep farmer (at Narra Tarra), a station manager (at Wurarga, Barnong, and Gabyon), and an Agricultural Bank inspector.
- Mills stood as an "independent Nationalist" candidate for Central Province at the 1918 Legislative Council elections.
- He defeated Labor's John Drew, who had become personally unpopular in the seat.
- Mills' age (he was 59 when he first stood for office) led to him being nicknamed "Uncle Joe" by The Sunday Times.
- After briefly joining the Ministerial Country Party in 1923 (a Country Party splinter group), Mills stood as an endorsed Nationalist candidate at the 1924 election, but was defeated by Drew.
- He stood again in 1926, but was defeated by Country candidate George Kempton.After losing his seat, Mills farmed with his son at Waggrakine.
- He had married Hannah Maley in 1892, and the couple had one son and one daughter together, but she died in childbirth in 1905.
- Her brothers, Charles and Henry Maley, were both later members of the Legislative Assembly (for Irwin and Greenough, respectively).
- Mills' own sister, Harriet Mills, was married to Everard Darlot, who was the inaugural MLA for Murchison.
- He was consequently the brother-in-law of three other MPs in Western Australia.
- Mills died in Geraldton in 1943, aged 84, and was buried at Narra Tarra.
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