Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1917–1919

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

Notes

  1. ^ a b Irvine resigned in 1918, and was succeeded by Stanley Bruce (Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 11 May 1918.
  2. ^ Forrest died in 1918, and was succeeded by Edwin Corboy (Labor) at the resulting by-election on 26 October 1918.
  3. ^ a b Manifold died in 1918, and was succeeded by William Gibson (Victorian Farmers Union) at the resulting by-election on 14 December 1918.
  4. ^ a b Palmer died in 1919, and was succeeded by William Hill (Victorian Farmers Union) at the resulting by-election on 20 September 1919.
  5. ^ a b 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.
  6. ^ a b Salmon died in 1917, and was succeeded by Edmund Jowett (Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 27 October 1917.