1. John Singleton Clemons was an Australian lawyer and politician.
13 Facts About John Clemons
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John Clemons served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1901 to 1914, representing the Free Trade Party until 1909 and then the Liberal Party.
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John Clemons served as an honorary minister in the government of Joseph Cook from 1913 to 1914.
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John Clemons was the oldest of eight children born to Anne Alicia and John Nicholas Clemons.
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John Clemons's father was a schoolteacher from Devon, England, who had been recruited to the colony in 1855.
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John Clemons unsuccessfully stood for the House of Assembly seat of Launceston at the 1900 general election.
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John Clemons subsequently joined the parliamentary Free Trade Party and was elected as its Senate whip.
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In 1904 John Clemons supported the Reid government, although describing himself as independent "to a certain extent".
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John Clemons was a fiscal conservative, opposing the Trans-Australian Railway, the construction of Canberra, and increased defence spending.
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John Clemons was re-elected in 1906 and joined the Liberal Party following the Fusion of 1909.
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John Clemons was defeated at the 1914 election following a double dissolution.
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In 1889 John Clemons married Edith Savigny, the daughter of William Henry Savigny, headmaster of Launceston Church Grammar School, and sister of William "Beau" Savigny, with whom he practised law.
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John Clemons died at his son's home in Oxford on 10 November 1944, aged 82, having been predeceased by his wife a few days earlier.