| 词条 | John McEwan Hunter |
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|honorific-prefix = |name = John Hunter |honorific-suffix = |image =John McEwan Hunter, Minister for Lands, 1915.jpg |caption =John McEwan Hunter, Minister for Lands, 1915 | constituency_AM1 = Maranoa | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 18 May 1907 | term_end1 = 22 Oct 1919 | predecessor1 = Thomas Spencer | successor1 = Thomas Spencer | alongside1 = |birth_date = 1863 |birth_place = Moreton Bay, in Queensland waters, Australia |death_date = 18 April 1940 |death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |restingplace = |birthname = John McEwan Hunter |nationality = Australian |party = Labor |otherparty = |spouse = Ellen Guthrie Moffat (m.1890 d.1947) |known_for = | occupation = Company director | relations = | alma_mater = | religion = Presbyterian }}John McEwan Hunter (1863 – 18 April 1940) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1] Early lifeHunter was born in 1863 in Moreton Bay, off the coast of Queensland[2] as his family was migrating from Scotland to Australia. He was the son of Daniel McEwan Hunter and his wife Jane and was educated at Redbank, Spring Creek and Clifton State Schools.[1] He was for some years manager of a branch business for McLeish and Company in Roma before joining with other members of his family to open a general store in the Maranoa Region.[2] On 2 June 1890 Hunter married Ellen Guthrie Moffat (died 1947) in Toowoomba and together had one daughter. Public lifeHunter was an alderman in Roma and was the town's mayor in 1900. At the 1907 Queensland state election he won the seat of Maranoa, defeating the sitting Ministerial member, Thomas Spencer.[3] He went on to hold Maranoa until his resignation in 1919 to take up the role of the Queensland Agent-General in England.[4] During his time in parliament he was the Secretary for Public Lands from 1915 until 1918 and Minister without Office from 1918 until his resignation the next year.[1] He was the chairman of the Queensland Chamber of Agriculture from 1935-1940 and chairman of the Investment and Finance Commission.[2] His interests were business and the affairs of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a leading member. He was an elder of the Hamilton Presbyterian Church and represented that church in the state assembly. He was also on the church's board of investments and finance. He was a keen bowls player and was a member and official of the Booroodabin bowls club.[2] Later lifeHunter died at his home in Hamilton, Brisbane, in April 1940 and was accorded a state funeral[2] which proceeded from St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Brisbane to the Mt Thompson Crematorium.[5] LegacyHis department store in Roma, Hunter's Emporium, was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 2008.[6] See also
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=565314650|accessdate=10 April 2016}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40883017 |title=STATE FUNERAL TO-DAY FOR MR. J.M. HUNTER |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=2069 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=20 April 1940 |accessdate=10 April 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19379371 |title=SUMMARY OF RESULTS. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |volume=LXIII, |issue=15,401 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=23 May 1907 |accessdate=10 April 2016 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20398948 |title=STATE BY-ELECTIONS. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |issue=19,321 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=22 December 1919 |accessdate=10 April 2016 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40883030|title=Family Notices|date=20 April 1940|newspaper=The Courier-mail|issue=2069|location=Queensland, Australia|page=19|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=10 April 2016}} 6. ^{{cite QHR|16512|Hunter's Emporium (former)|601775|accessdate=1 August 2014}} External links{{Commons category-inline|John McEwan Hunter}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, John McEwan}} 4 : Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly|1863 births|1940 deaths|Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland |
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