Frank Tudor

Francis Gwynne "Frank" Tudor ( born January 29, 1866 in Williamstown, Victoria, † January 10, 1922 in Richmond ), was an Australian politician and in the years 1916 to 1921 Chairman of the Australian Labor Party.

Early life

Tudor was born on January 29, 1866 in Williamstown, Victoria, the son of John Llewellyn Tudor, a worker, and Ellen Charlotte, originally Burt, both of which came from Wales. Soon after, the family moved to Richmond, where Tudor spent his entire life.

After Richmond Central State School and leave as a shoe factory for a short time worked in a sawmill, it attracted Tudor in the Filzhutindustrie. Across Victoria, he worked after his studies at the sale of his hats. Then it moved Tudor England, where he worked in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester and Alice Smale married in 1894. In the same year his wife died, so he went to become Vice President of the Felt Hatters ' Union to London. Fanny Jane Mead in 1897 his second wife.

Like many other Labor politicians also engaged Tudor initially in trade unions and persuaded the British companies sign to use to detect that their workers were joined together in unions. After his return to Australia he moved into a seat in the "Victorian Trades Hall Council," its president in 1900.

Political career

As a celebrity in Richmond, he was able to win a seat at the first federal election in 1901 for the Labor Party with a large majority for the electoral district Yarra. As a deacon, he angered some Protestants with his demand for Home Rule for Ireland.

So he made a name for himself and was chosen as the Whip, so " cheerleader " of his party. By the year 1904, he was appointed secretary to before he was in three periods in a row, government under Prime Minister Andrew Fisher Trade and Consumer Protection Minister ( 1908-1909, 1910-1913 and 1914-1915). Even after Andrew Fisher was replaced by Billy Hughes as prime minister, he remained at his post as minister of trade and consumers. Because of its resistance to the introduction of conscription in Australia during the First World War, he eventually resigned from the government to Hughes in 1916. But Hughes himself left their own government to set up the end of the same year the Nationalist Party of Australia.

Leader of the Opposition

In November 1917 Tudor was appointed chairman of the Australian Labor Party and thus simultaneously selected for opposition leaders. Although they lost the federal elections in 1917, but managed to avoid conscription.

In 1919, TJ Ryan, later Prime Minister of the State of Queensland was appointed as deputy Tudors. They threw Tudor incompetence and planned Ryan as his successor to build, but died suddenly of 1921. Tudor was generally not seen as a strong leader and not as a great competitor for the incumbent Prime Minister Hughes, which was confirmed in the election defeat in 1921. Although his health quickly deteriorated from 1921, Tudor was on the request of his party in office. He was, at his death on 10 January 1922, the first chairman of the Labor Party, who died during his tenure.