Martin Hannah, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Martin Hannah

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1865

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1953

Profession: politician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Martin Hannah

  • Martin Hannah (28 February 1865 – 27 March 1953) was an Australian politician. Born in Whroo, Victoria, to miner James Smith Hannah and Elizabeth Irving, both Scottish-born, he attended country schools before becoming an alluvial miner and timber worker at Murchison.
  • He then worked as a bricklayer in Melbourne before the land crash sent him to Western Australia, where he organised an unemployment conference.
  • After returning to Victoria he was the first president of the Political Labor Council.
  • Around 1886 he married Elizabeth Ann May, with whom he had four children; later, around 1921, he remarried Jane Elizabeth Satchell.
  • In 1902 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Railway Officers; he resigned in 1906 but returned to the Assembly in 1908 as the member for Collingwood.
  • In 1910 he was expelled from the Labor Party for being a member of the Commonwealth Protectionist League, but he was later readmitted and became a minister without portfolio in 1913.
  • In 1920 he lost his endorsement and was expelled from the party after winning the seat as an Independent Labor candidate.
  • Hannah was defeated in 1921.
  • He died at Parkville in 1953.

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