Samuel Smith (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Samuel Smith (Australian politician)
- Samuel Smith (17 February 1857 – 22 January 1916) was an Australian politician Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, to Samuel Smith and Marion Hunter, he attended school at Kilwinning and became a colliery lad at the age of eleven, becoming active in the Glasgow Railway and Seaman's Union.
- In 1882 he arrived in Sydney and helped found the local Seamen's Union, of which he was assistant secretary in 1890 and secretary from 1891 to 1902.
- He was a Sydney City Councillor from 1900 to 1902.
- In 1898 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Sydney-Pyrmont, serving until 1902.
- Smith died at Lilyfield in 1916.
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