Moses Gabb
| Moses Gabb | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Angas |
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In office 13 December 1919 – 14 November 1925 |
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| Preceded by | Paddy Glynn |
| Succeeded by | Walter Parsons |
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In office 12 October 1929 – 7 August 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Walter Parsons |
| Succeeded by | Division abolished |
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| Born |
21 November 1882 Adelaide, South Australia |
| Died | 6 March 1951 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party |
Labor (1919–31) Independent (1931–34) |
| Occupation | Church worker, greengrocer |
Joel Moses Gabb (21 November 1882 – 6 March 1951) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1919 to 1934, representing the electorate of Angas. He represented the Australian Labor Party until resigning during the 1931 Labor split; however, he did not join the United Australia Party along with the other dissident MPs, and instead remained in parliament as an independent.
Gabb was born in Glenelg, and was educated at St Peter's College. He worked for printers A. & E. Lewis and then for grocers Barns, Stobie, & Co. after leaving school. He had studied at night to become a Methodist missionary while working at the grocers, and after qualifying for home mission work, worked from 1905 reopening a mission on Kangaroo Island, then at churches in Cockburn, Silverton, Kalangadoo and Penola, and on the Tea Tree Gully–Modbury circuit. He passed as a candidate for ministry and studied at Prince Alfred College in 1908, before spending two and a half years preaching from a motor launch on the Murray River between Swan Reach and Loxton. He then left missionary work because of doctrinal differences, did not enter the ministry, and instead opened a store at Alberton until his election to parliament. He married Florence Ethel Hobbs on 9 October 1912. He was publicly involved in the campaign against conscription during World War I, and unsuccessfully contested the 1918 state election in the electorate of Barossa, narrowly losing to Sir Richard Butler. Gabb was a strict teetotaller.
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