John Mackey (politician)

Sir John Mackey
Sir John Mackey
12th Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
	In office; 29 November 1917 – 6 April 1924
Preceded by	Frank Madden
Succeeded by	John Bowser
Solicitor-General of Victoria
	In office; 28 February 1908 – 8 September 1908
Preceded by	John Mark Davies
Succeeded by	John Mark Davies
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Gippsland West
	In office; 1902–1924
Preceded by	Arthur Nichols
Succeeded by	Arthur Walter
Personal details
Born	7 August 1863; Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Died	6 April 1924 (aged 60); Nayook, Victoria, Australia

Sir John Emanuel Mackey (7 August 1863 – 6 April 1924) was an Australian politician. Mackey was born in Sandhurst to horse dealer David Mackey and Mary Ann Moore. He was largely self-educated, with only a brief and late formal education. He worked at a printery in Bendigo and then as a compositor for Mason, Firth and McCutcheon, a Melbourne law firm. He studied law at the University of Melbourne where he was resident at Ormond College, receiving a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Arts. In 1890 he was called to the bar, and he was also a lecturer at Melbourne University. In 1902 he married Stella Watson Bates, with whom he had five children.

Mackey was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1902 for Gippsland West, and soon entered the ministry as a minister without portfolio in 1904. From 1906 he was Minister of Lands; he was also briefly Chief Secretary and Minister of Labour from 1906 to 1907 before taking up these roles again in 1908.^[1] From February to September 1908 he was Solicitor-General of Victoria.^[2] A Liberal and a member of the Nationalist Party's Economy faction, he was Speaker of the Assembly from 1917 to 1924. Knighted in 1921, he died at Nayook in 1924.^[3]

References

^ "Sir John Emanuel Mackey". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
^ "Appointment Solicitor-General John Mackey". Victoria Government Gazette. Victorian Government Printer. 28 February 1908. p. 1908:1506.
^ Serle, Geoffrey. "Mackey, Sir John Emanuel (1863–1924)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.

Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Arthur Nichols	Member for Gippsland West 1902–1924	Succeeded by Arthur Walter
Political offices
Preceded by Sir Frank Madden	Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 1917–1924	Succeeded by John Bowser
Preceded by John Davies	Solicitor-General of Victoria Feb – Sep 1908	Succeeded by John Davies

[Mackey_re-member-1] "Sir John Emanuel Mackey". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2016.

[gazette_1908_1506-2] "Appointment Solicitor-General John Mackey". Victoria Government Gazette. Victorian Government Printer. 28 February 1908. p. 1908:1506.

[3] Serle, Geoffrey. "Mackey, Sir John Emanuel (1863–1924)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.

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