Sir John Emanuel Mackey (7 August 1863 – 6 April 1924) was an Australian politician. Mackey was born in Sandhurst to horse dealer David Mackey and Mary Ann Moore. He was largely self-educated, with only a brief and late formal education. He worked at a printery in Bendigo and then as a compositor for Mason, Firth and McCutcheon, a Melbourne law firm. He studied law at the University of Melbourne where he was resident at Ormond College, receiving a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Arts. In 1890 he was called to the bar, and he was also a lecturer at Melbourne University. In 1902 he married Stella Watson Bates, with whom he had five children.
Sir John Mackey | |
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| 12th Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 29 November 1917 – 6 April 1924 | |
| Preceded by | Frank Madden |
| Succeeded by | John Bowser |
| Solicitor-General of Victoria | |
| In office 28 February 1908 – 8 September 1908 | |
| Preceded by | John Mark Davies |
| Succeeded by | John Mark Davies |
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Gippsland West | |
| In office 1902–1924 | |
| Preceded by | Arthur Nichols |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Walter |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 August 1863 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 6 April 1924 (aged 60) Nayook, Victoria, Australia |
Mackey was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1902 for Gippsland West, and soon entered the ministry as a minister without portfolio in 1904. From 1906 he was Minister of Lands; he was also briefly Chief Secretary and Minister of Labour from 1906 to 1907 before taking up these roles again in 1908.[1] From February to September 1908 he was Solicitor-General of Victoria.[2] A Liberal and a member of the Nationalist Party's Economy faction, he was Speaker of the Assembly from 1917 to 1924. Knighted in 1921, he died at Nayook in 1924.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Sir John Emanuel Mackey". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "Appointment Solicitor-General John Mackey". Victoria Government Gazette. Victorian Government Printer. 28 February 1908. p. 1908:1506.
- ^ Serle, Geoffrey. "Mackey, Sir John Emanuel (1863–1924)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.