12 Facts About Edward Findley

Edward Findley was an Australian politician and publisher.

Edward Findley served as a Senator for Victoria from 1904 to 1917 and from 1923 to 1929, representing the Australian Labor Party.

Edward Findley was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1900 to 1901.

Edward Findley became an active unionist and was elected president of the Australasian Typographical Union in 1897.

Edward Findley established a weekly newspaper, The Boomerang in 1894, but it ran for only eight issues.

Edward Findley did not stand at the ensuing by-election in his seat, instead contesting the Melbourne East by-election on the same day.

Edward Findley was not successful, after the number of Liberal candidates opposing him was reduced to avoid vote splitting.

Edward Findley won a seat in the Australian Senate at the 1903 election.

Edward Findley was an honorary minister in the second Fisher Ministry from 1911 to 1913, and was responsible in the Senate for matters handled by the Minister of Home Affairs and the Postmaster-General.

Edward Findley was defeated at the 1917 election, but returned to the Senate at the 1922 election.

From 1930 until his death, Edward Findley was a government director of the Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd.

Edward Findley died in his home in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield, survived by his wife and one of his two daughters.