Alexander Poynton
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The Honourable Alexander Poynton OBE |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for South Australia |
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In office 30 March 1901 – 16 December 1903 Serving with Lee Batchelor, Langdon Bonython, Paddy Glynn, Frederick Holder, Charles Kingston, Vaiben Louis Solomon |
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| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Grey |
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In office 16 December 1903 – 16 December 1922 |
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| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Lacey |
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8 August 1853 Castlemaine, Victoria |
| Died | 9 January 1935 (aged 81) Toorak Gardens, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
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Ind. Labor (1893–1901) Free Trade (1901–02) Labor (1902–16) National Labor (1916–17) Nationalist (1917–22) |
| Spouse(s) | Harriet Brown |
| Occupation | Shearer, miner |
Alexander Poynton, OBE, (8 August 1853 – 9 January 1935) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1893 to 1901, representing Flinders. He was an inaugural member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901, representing South Australia until 1903 and Grey thereafter until his defeat in 1922.
Born in Castlemaine, Victoria to Alexander, who took part in the rebellion, and Rosanna Poynton, Poynton left school at 14 to work as a shearer, station-hand and miner, and marry Harriet Brown on 15 July 1880 in Ballarat before moving to South Australia in 1887 and settling in Port Augusta, where he founded the South Australian Shearers Union in 1888.
With his support in the labour movement, Poynton unsuccessfully stood for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Newcastle at the 1890 election, before his election to the adjacent seat of Flinders at the 1893 election, serving as an Independent Labor MP. As an Independent Labor MP he attended the United Labor Party caucus meetings without being bound by its decisions, but supported it in divisions.
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