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Harry Davies (politician)

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{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}{{Use South African English|date=June 2015}}Harry Herbert Davies (9 June 1878 – 31 August 1957) was a Southern Rhodesian Labour politician and Leader of the Opposition in the territory's Legislative Assembly from 1929 to 1944.^[1] Originally from Wales, he moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1920 and became an estate agent in Bulawayo.^[2] He ran for the Southern Rhodesian Labour Party in Bulawayo District in the 1924 general election, but was not elected.^[1] After standing successfully in Bulawayo South in the 1928 election, he sat in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly for 20 years.^[2] In 1929 he was elected leader of the Southern Rhodesian Labour Party, thereby becoming Leader of the Opposition, a post he held until 1944.^[2]

Re-elected in Bulawayo South in the 1933 and 1934 elections, in 1939 Davies switched to the new Hillside constituency in southern Bulawayo, which he won, and held in 1946.^[1] On the outbreak of the Second World War he accepted the Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins's offer to come into a national government with ministers from both sides of the House, and served as Minister of Internal Affairs from 1939 to 1943.^[3] Davies's co-operation with Huggins infuriated many of his Labour contemporaries and caused an acrimonious split in the party. The two Labour factions reconciled in 1943 and briefly threatened Huggins's premiership, but a heated dispute over whether Labour should become multiracial led to the party's disintegration in 1944.^[4] Davies's political career ended after his defeat in Hillside by Julian Greenfield of Huggins's United Party in the 1948 general election.^[1] The former Labour leader died in Salisbury on 31 August 1957, at the age of 79.^[2]

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1. ^¹²{{cite book|title=Source Book of Parliamentary Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia, 1898–1962|editor-last=Willson|editor-first=F M G|publisher=Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland|location=Salisbury|year=1963|oclc=219295658|page=225}}
2. ^¹²{{cite journal|title=Obituary: Mr H H Davies|work=East Africa and Rhodesia|publisher=Africana|location=London|year=1957|volume=34|page=18}}
3. ^¹²{{cite book|title=Rhodesian History: The Journal of the Central African Historical Association|first=R S|last=Roberts|publisher=Central Africa Historical Association|location=Salisbury|year=1972|volume=8|page=59}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=A History of Rhodesia|last=Blake|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Blake, Baron Blake|year=1977|edition=First|location=London|publisher=Eyre Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-28350-4|pages=235–237}}

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