Andrew Kelly

Biography

Andrew Joseph Kelly (1854 – 3 September 1913) was an Irish-born union official and Labor Party politician who served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in the periods 1891 to 1894 and 1901 to 1913. He was known familiarly as 'Andy' Kelly. Kelly worked as a dock-worker and seaman before arriving in Australia in 1881. He became involved in union activities in Sydney and rose to prominent positions in several unions, including serving as president of the Sydney Trades and Labour Council. In June 1891 Kelly was amongst the initial group of Labor Party members elected to the New South Wales parliament. He was one of four Labor members representing the electorate of West Sydney from 1891 to June 1894, although in November 1893 he was expelled from the party. In late 1894, after an unsuccessful bid for re-election as a Protectionist Party candidate, Kelly moved to West Wyalong where he became a hotelkeeper. He returned to Sydney in 1899. He leased a hotel and in 1900 was elected as an alderman of the Sydney City Council. In 1901 Kelly was accepted as the Labor candidate for the Sydney-Denison electorate, to which he was elected. The electorate was abolished after a re-distribution and reduction of constituencies. Kelly was then elected as the member for The Lachlan in 1904, a seat which he held until his death in 1913.

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