Paddy Glynn

Patrick McMahon Glynn KC ( born August 25, 1855 in Gort, County Galway, † 28 October 1931 in Adelaide ) was an Australian politician and, among others, Foreign Minister of the country.

Early life

Patrick Glynn was born in 1855 in the Irish Gort and went to the French College in Dublin. He was a prize winner as a speaker at the Law students Debating Society of Ireland in 1880 - the year of his emigration to Australia.

Political career

He was drawn to Victoria, but his time there was not very successful, so that after Kapunda in South Australia moved to open a branch of a resident of Adelaide law firm in 1882. There was much better for him, so that he now had the financial ability to open his own law firm and enter into political life. He was also editor of the way Kapunda Herald, the local newspaper.

Glynn served henceforth as president of the Irish National League in South Australia and was one of the founders of the South Australian Country Nationalisation Society. In 1887 he was elected for the District of Light in the House of Representatives of South Australia. He was helped his former political commitment. He was generally regarded as a conservative, but many of his conservative supporters of him aloof because of its progressive ideas regarding land policy of the country and women's suffrage.

Glynn was defeated at the polls in 1890 and was not successful with his campaign in 1893. It was not until 1895 he returned to the electoral district of North Adelaide back in the colonial policy of South Australia. In his re-election in 1897 he was the first Australian to be elected by the adult suffrage.

Glynn was one of the members of the Assembly, which approved the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1897 and 1898 and was co-founder of the Free Trade Party, one of the most influential parties in the country early 20s. In the first independent nationwide election 1901, Glynn took care of the election campaigns of his party in South Australia and Western Australia, while party leader George Reid supervised the rest of the country. As a reward for his work, he was elected to the Australian Parliament and is considered along with Reid as the founder of the first all- Australian, political campaign.

His seat in 1903 for the District Angas, as well as in the federal elections in 1910, 1913 and 1914, he won unopposed, before he lost his seat in the elections of 1919. In Parliament he was mainly Advocate General of Australia, Foreign Minister and Minister of the Interior.

Later life and death

Glynn retired from active politics in 1919 and died in 1931 in North Adelaide. He married Abigail Dynon who died before him, and left two sons and four daughters. As a good Shakespeare students some of his literary works were published. He also wrote political writing.