Thompson Green

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Thompson Green (26 January 1861 – 1 July 1945) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seats of Port Adelaide from 1910 to 1915 and West Torrens from 1915 to 1918. He was a member of the United Labor Party until 1917, when he left to join the National Party in the 1917 Labor split.^[1]

The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.

Port Adelaide is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after Port Adelaide, which it surrounds, it is a 118.8 km² suburban and industrial electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula, and stretches east toward Adelaide's northern suburbs. It contains a mix of seaside residential areas, wasteland and industrial regions. In addition to its namesake suburb of Port Adelaide, the district includes the suburbs of Birkenhead, Bolivar, Cavan, Dry Creek, Ethelton, Exeter, Garden Island, Gepps Cross, Gillman, Glanville, Globe Derby Park, Largs Bay, Largs North, New Port, North Haven, Osborne, Ottoway, Outer Harbor, Peterhead, Semaphore, Semaphore South, St Kilda, Taperoo, Torrens Island, Wingfield, as well as part of Rosewater.

West Torrens is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the City of West Torrens, it is a 25.1 km² suburban electorate in Adelaide's west. It includes the suburbs and areas of Brooklyn Park, Cowandilla, Flinders Park, Hilton, Hindmarsh, Keswick Terminal, Marleston, Mile End, Mile End South, Netley, Richmond, Thebarton, Torrensville, Underdale and West Richmond, as well as parts of Allenby Gardens, Lockleys, Welland and West Hindmarsh.

Green was born in Glasgow. He went to work at the age of ten, and apprenticed as a boilermaker. He migrated to Sydney in 1886, and subsequently spent time in Melbourne and in Tasmania. Green was involved in the 1890 Australian maritime dispute, after which a number of employers refused to employ him due to his prominent role. He left Melbourne for Adelaide in 1891 and faced continuing problems with being barred from employment due to his union activities, but was hired as a boilermaker at Islington Railway Workshops from 1895 until his election to parliament in 1910. He was heavily involved in union activities, serving as secretary of the state Boilermakers' Society for twenty years, president of the Trades and Labour Council, the inaugural president of the Federated Boilermakers' Society of Australia, and president of the Federated Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Association. He was also president of the Eight Hours Committee, the Adelaide Trades Hall management committee and the Iron Trades Council. In local politics, Green was elected mayor of the Corporate Town of Thebarton.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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He was elected to the House of Assembly at the 1910 election for the seat of Port Adelaide, and switched to the new seat of West Torrens following an electoral redistribution in 1915.^[2]^[5] Green left the Labor Party for the new National Party in the 1917 Labor split over conscription.^[6] The Thebarton branch of the Labor Party had already declined to re-endorse him for Thebarton mayor in October 1916 as a result of his support for conscription.^[7] Green was defeated by a Labor candidate when he ran for re-election at the 1918 state election.^[8]

The National Party was a political party active in South Australia from 1917 to 1923, similar to the federal National Labor Party. It was created in the wake of the 1917 Australian Labor Party split over conscription along the same lines that occurred federally with the Nationalist Party of Australia, following the February 1917 expulsion from the South Australian Labor Party of sitting Premier Crawford Vaughan and his supporters. It was initially known as the National Labor Party like their federal counterpart, but was renamed at a conference in June 1917. The party initially continued on in government under Vaughan, but was subsequently defeated in parliament in July 1917, and thereafter served as the junior partner in a coalition with the Liberal Union under Archibald Peake.

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Following his parliamentary defeat, Green was appointed Inspector of Bridges by the Butler government.^[9]

Sir Richard Layton Butler KCMG was the 31st Premier of South Australia, serving two disjunct terms in office: from 1927 to 1930, and again from 1933 to 1938.

Green died at the home of his daughter at Erindale in 1945 at the age of 84.^[2]

Erindale is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Burnside. It is on the east side of Glynburn Road, where it borders Leabrook.

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References

↑ Thompson Green: SA Parliament
1 2 3 "MR. THOMPSON GREEN DEAD". The Chronicle . 88, (4985). South Australia. 5 July 1945. p. 30. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "MR. THOMPSON GREEK, M.P. (Port Adelaide)." The Register . LXXV, (19,780). South Australia. 5 April 1910. p. 11. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "MR. THOMPSON GREEN". Daily Herald . 2, (592). South Australia. 27 January 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "THE STATE ELECTIONS". The Advertiser . LVII, (17,600). South Australia. 13 March 1915. p. 17. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "THE LABOR SPLIT". The Advertiser . LIX, (18,201). South Australia. 13 February 1917. p. 7. Retrieved 1 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "DISSENSIONS IN THE LABOR PARTY". The Advertiser . LIX, (18,106). South Australia. 24 October 1916. p. 6. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS". The Catholic Press (1163). New South Wales, Australia. 11 April 1918. p. 27. Retrieved 1 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "MB. THOMPSON GREEN'S POSITION". Daily Herald . 9, (2652). South Australia. 19 September 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

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[1] Thompson Green: SA Parliament

[obit-2] 1 2 3 "MR. THOMPSON GREEN DEAD". The Chronicle . 88, (4985). South Australia. 5 July 1945. p. 30. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

[3] "MR. THOMPSON GREEK, M.P. (Port Adelaide)." The Register . LXXV, (19,780). South Australia. 5 April 1910. p. 11. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

[4] "MR. THOMPSON GREEN". Daily Herald . 2, (592). South Australia. 27 January 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

[5] "THE STATE ELECTIONS". The Advertiser . LVII, (17,600). South Australia. 13 March 1915. p. 17. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

[6] "THE LABOR SPLIT". The Advertiser . LIX, (18,201). South Australia. 13 February 1917. p. 7. Retrieved 1 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

[7] "DISSENSIONS IN THE LABOR PARTY". The Advertiser . LIX, (18,106). South Australia. 24 October 1916. p. 6. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

[8] "SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS". The Catholic Press (1163). New South Wales, Australia. 11 April 1918. p. 27. Retrieved 1 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

[9] "MB. THOMPSON GREEN'S POSITION". Daily Herald . 9, (2652). South Australia. 19 September 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 2 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.