Norman Kirkwood Ewing was an Australian lawyer, politician and judge.
20 Facts About Norman Ewing
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Norman Ewing was born in New South Wales and moved to Western Australia in the 1890s.
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Norman Ewing served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1897 to 1901 and was elected to the Senate at the inaugural federal election in 1901.
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Norman Ewing resigned from the Senate in 1903 and moved to Tasmania in 1905, serving in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1909 to 1915.
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Norman Ewing's brothers were John Ewing and Sir Thomas Ewing, who were members of parliament.
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Norman Ewing was educated at Illawarra College in Wollongong, then Oakwoods at Mittagong, and finally night school in Sydney.
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Norman Ewing was admitted to the bar the following year, and in 1897 established the firm of Ewing and Downing.
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On 4 May 1897, Norman Ewing was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Swan as an independent.
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Norman Ewing held the seat of Swan until March 1901, when he resigned it to take up a short-term seat in the first Australian Senate, which he had won on a Free Trade ticket.
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Norman Ewing's term was due to continue until 31 December 1903.
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In 1902, while still a Senator, Norman Ewing stood unsuccessfully for the position of Mayor of Perth.
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Norman Ewing resigned as Senator eight months early on 17 April 1903, becoming the first member of either house of the Australian Parliament to resign his seat.
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In 1905, Norman Ewing moved to Hobart, Tasmania, where he established the firm of Norman Ewing and Seager.
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Norman Ewing then turned to Tasmanian state politics, winning the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Franklin in April 1909.
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Norman Ewing held the seat for over six years, for the last year of which he was Leader of the Opposition.
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Norman Ewing was made a King's Counsel in 1914, and in September the following year resigned his seat in parliament to accept an appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
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Norman Ewing conducted the 1920 Royal Commission in New South Wales into the imprisonment of twelve Industrial Workers of the World members.
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From November 1923 to June 1924, Norman Ewing was appointed Administrator of Tasmania, while awaiting the arrival of the new governor Captain Sir James O'Grady.
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Norman Ewing died at Launceston on 19 July 1928, and was buried at Carr Villa cemetery.
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In 1897, Norman Ewing married Maude Stone, the daughter of Western Australian judge Edward Albert Stone.