Ted Theodore
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The Hon Ted Theodore |
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| 20th Premier of Queensland | |
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In office 22 October 1919 – 26 February 1925 |
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| Preceded by | T. J. Ryan |
| Succeeded by | William Gillies |
| Constituency | Chillagoe |
| 12th Treasurer of Australia | |
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In office 22 October 1929 – 8 July 1930 |
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| Prime Minister | James Scullin |
| Preceded by | Dr Earle Page |
| Succeeded by | James Scullin |
| Constituency | Dalley |
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In office 29 January 1931 – 5 January 1932 |
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| Prime Minister | James Scullin |
| Preceded by | James Scullin |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Lyons |
| Constituency | Dalley |
| 24th Treasurer of Queensland | |
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In office 1 June 1915 – 9 March 1920 |
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| Preceded by | Walter Barnes |
| Succeeded by | John Fihelly |
| Constituency | Chillagoe |
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In office 8 February 1922 – 26 February 1925 |
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| Preceded by | John Fihelly |
| Succeeded by | William Gillies |
| Constituency | Chillagoe |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Woothakata |
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In office 2 October 1909 – 27 April 1912 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Woods |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Chillagoe |
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In office 27 April 1912 – 22 September 1925 |
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| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | John O'Keefe |
| Personal details | |
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Edward Granville Theodore 29 December 1884 Adelaide, South Australia |
| Died | 9 February 1950 (aged 65) Edgecliff, Sydney, Australia |
| Resting place | South Head Cemetery |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Esther Mahoney (m.1909 d.1959) |
| Relations | Stephen Theodore (brother) |
| Occupation | Company chief executive, Newspaper proprietor, Public servant, Trade union official |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Edward Granville (Ted) Theodore (29 December 1884 – 9 February 1950) was an Australian politician. He was Premier of Queensland 1919–25, a member of the federal House of Representatives 1927–31, and Federal Treasurer 1929–30 and 1931-32.
Theodore was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the second son of Basil Teodorescu, a Romanian immigrant. He was educated at Lefevre Peninsula Catholic and Aldgate State schools in Adelaide, but left school at 12 to work on the Adelaide docks. In 1900 he left for the goldfields of Western Australia, but failed to make his fortune there and decided to try his luck at Broken Hill, New South Wales, instead. In 1906 he left for Cairns, Queensland where he prospected for tin in the Chillagoe area and worked in the Vulcan Mine in Irvinebank. It was among the unorganised workers of Stannary Hills and Irvinebank that the Amalgamated Workers' Association of North Queensland was born.
Theodore founded the Amalgamated Workers' Association with Bill McCormack. This union used the process and principle of amalgamation to unify with other unions until it became Australia's largest union, the Australian Workers' Union (AWU). Theodore became Queensland state president of the AWU in 1913. Meanwhile, he had been elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Woothakata from 1909 to 1912 for the Australian Labor Party and subsequently from 1912 to 1925 in Chillagoe (the seat of Woothakata renamed). His position in the AWU made him a power in the Parliamentary Labor Party, and when Labor won a majority in the Assembly for the first time in 1915, he became Treasurer and Secretary for Public Works in the government of T. J. Ryan.
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