John Price (South Australian politician)
| John Lloyd Price | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Boothby |
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In office 17 November 1928 – 23 April 1941 |
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| Preceded by | Jack Duncan-Hughes |
| Succeeded by | Grenfell Price |
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| Born |
14 February 1882 Everton, Liverpool, England |
| Died | 23 April 1941 (aged 59) Highgate, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party |
Labor (1915–31) UAP (1931–41) |
| Occupation | Trade unionist, railwayman |
John Lloyd (Jack) Price (14 February 1882 – 23 April 1941) was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Port Adelaide from 1915 to 1925. He later served in the Australian House of Representatives for Boothby from 1928 until his death in 1941, but left the Labor Party and joined the United Australia Party in the 1931 Labor split over government responses to the Great Depression.
Price was born in Everton in Liverpool, England, the son of Thomas Price, the future first Labor Premier of South Australia, and his wife Anne Elizabeth (née Lloyd). His family migrated to South Australia in March 1883 and settled at Hawthorn, where Price was educated at Mitcham Public School, Unley Public School, the Adelaide Business College and the South Australian School of Mines. He worked in the clerical branch of the state railways from June 1898 until his election to the House of Assembly in 1915. He volunteered for service in World War I along with several brothers, but was rejected.
He was secretary of the Railway Officers' Association and the state branch of the Federated Masters' and Engineers' Association, president of the South Australian Government General Workers' Association and the Port Adelaide Trades and Labour Council, and later president of the United Trades and Labour Council and state president of the Labor Party. He was both a councillor and alderman of the City of Port Adelaide, serving from 1916 to 1924, and was president of the Largs Bay Progressive Association.
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