John Perkins (Australian politician)
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The Honourable John Perkins |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Eden-Monaro |
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In office 6 March 1926 – 12 December 1929 |
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| Preceded by | Austin Chapman |
| Succeeded by | John Cusack |
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In office 19 December 1931 – 21 August 1943 |
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| Preceded by | John Cusack |
| Succeeded by | Allan Fraser |
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18 May 1878 Gocup, New South Wales |
| Died | 13 July 1954 (aged 76) Manly, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
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Nationalist (1926–1929) UAP (1931–43) |
| Spouse(s) | Evelyn Mary Bray |
| Occupation | Local councillor |
John Arthur Perkins (18 May 1878 – 13 July 1954) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1926 to 1943, representing the seat of Eden-Monaro for the Nationalist Party of Australia and its successor the United Australia Party. He was a minister in the governments of Joseph Lyons and Robert Menzies.
Perkins was born at Gocup near Tumut, New South Wales, and educated at Tumut Public School and Cooma Public School. He was a small farmer at Cooma from 1894 to 1899, when he leased the property and became a newsagent and stationer in Cooma. He was a Municipality of Cooma councillor from 1902 to 1909 and was Mayor of Cooma in 1904 and 1908. He was also president of the Cooma School of Arts, president of the Parents' and Citizens' Association, a justice of the peace, the local coroner, a director of the Monaro Grammar School, a member of the local land board and Grand Master of the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity. Perkins was an unsuccessful candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Monaro in 1904 and in 1907. He married Evelyn Mary Bray in 1909.
He was appointed to a casual vacancy for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Goulburn in November 1921 following the death of Nationalist MP William Millard. As the countback method used to fill vacancies under the 1920-1927 proportional representation experiment (in which each seat had multiple members) was unable to fill the seat, the legislation was changed to allow for him to fill Millard's seat by appointment. He resigned from the Legislative Assembly in January 1926 upon his winning Nationalist Party preselection to contest a a federal by-election for the seat of Eden-Monaro.
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