Complex sentence: By 1918 he was President of the South Australian branch of the Labor Party, and in 1919 he was elected to the House of Representatives for the safe Labor seat of Hindmarsh in the working-class suburbs of Adelaide.
Split into simpler sentences: By 1918 he was President of the South Australian branch of the Labor Party. In 1919 he was elected to the House of Representatives for the safe Labor seat of Hindmarsh in the working-class suburbs of Adelaide.