18 Facts About Charles Culley

Charles Ernest Culley CMG was an Australian politician.

Charles Culley was a member of the Australian Labor Party and served in the Australian House of Representatives and Tasmanian House of Assembly.

Charles Culley was an assistant minister in the federal Scullin government and later became a minister in the Tasmanian state government.

Charles Culley worked in stables and was occasionally a jockey.

Charles Culley later worked as a miner at Broken Hill, Beaconsfield and Tullah and married Mary Jane Pope, in 1906.

Charles Culley was elected secretary of the Amalgamated Miners' Association in 1912.

Charles Culley moved to Hobart in 1913 and became prominent in the union movement.

Charles Culley was a long-serving secretary of the Builders' Labourers Union and state secretary of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia; he was secretary and president of the Tasmanian Female Confectioners Union and state president of the Australian Textile Workers Union.

Charles Culley was president of the Hobart Trades Hall Council for most of the period from 1934 to 1944 and served as president of the state Labor Party.

Charles Culley was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Denison for the Australian Labor Party at the 1922 election.

Charles Culley lost his seat in the 1928 state election, but won the federal seat of Denison at the 1928 federal election.

When Joseph Lyons resigned from the Scullin Ministry in March 1931, Charles Culley became Assistant Minister for Transport and War Service Homes, but in June he resigned in protest at cabinet's support for the fiscally-conservative Premiers' Plan to deal with the Great Depression.

In 1934, Charles Culley was elected to the state seat of Denison.

Charles Culley was chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works from 1934 to 1943.

Charles Culley was Minister for Mines from 1942 to 1943 and then Chief Secretary and Minister for Transport.

Charles Culley was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1947.

Charles Culley died at the Hobart suburb of New Town in 1949; a state funeral was held at St David's' Cathedral and he was cremated at the Cornelian Bay Crematorium.

Charles Culley was survived by his wife, a daughter and four sons.