Joseph Anthony Harper

Joseph Anthony Harper (23 Nuwamba 1867 - 1 Satumba 1939) ɗan kasuwan Australiya ne kuma ɗan siyasa. Ya kasance shugaban majalisar gundumar Burnside mai dadewa, dan majalisar birnin Adelaide, kuma memba na Majalisar Wakilai ta Kudu ta Australiya na wa'adi daya daga 1921 zuwa 1924, wanda ke wakiltar kujerar memba da yawa na Gabashin Torrens na Liberal. Union da magajinsa na Liberal Federation . 

An haifi Harper a Woodstock a Oxfordshire, Ingila. Iyalinsa sun yi ƙaura zuwa Ostiraliya lokacin yana ɗan shekara bakwai, kuma suka zauna a Ipswich a Queensland . Ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimaki na draper a Toowoomba da Brisbane, kafin ya koma Adelaide, inda ya kula da sashen tufafi a cikin Matthew Goode & Co. sito. Daga baya ya zama mai kera tufafi, ya kafa Kurtz & Harper tare da Abraham Kurtz. Zai ci gaba da zama manajan daraktan kamfanin, wanda daga baya aka sake masa suna National Clothing Manufacturing Company, har zuwa rasuwarsa. Harper ya yi fice a cikin da'irorin kasuwanci, yana aiki a matsayin shugaban Adelaide Chamber of Manufactures daga 1917 zuwa 1920, a matsayin shugaban Associated Chamber of Manufactures na Ostiraliya daga 1920 zuwa 1921, kuma a matsayin memba na zartarwa na Tarayyar Ma'aikata.   

An zabi Harper a matsayin dan majalisar gundumar Burnside a 1911. Ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaba daga 1918 zuwa 1934, lokacin da ya zama magajin garin Burnside na farko; ya bar mukamin magajin gari a karshen shekara ta 1935 amma zai ci gaba da zama a majalisar har mutuwarsa. Yayin da shugaban Burnside, ya yi aiki a wa'adi daya a majalisar wakilai mai wakiltar Liberal Federation mai ra'ayin mazan jiya. An zabe shi a majalisar a 1921, amma ya yi ritaya a shekara ta 1924 don nuna rashin amincewa da shawarar da jam'iyyarsa ta yanke a gwamnati na ba da umarnin yin jigilar jiragen kasa daga Amurka maimakon gina shi a cikin gida ko a Birtaniya.   An zabi Harper a matsayin dan majalisa na birnin Adelaide a 1934, yana wakiltar gundumar Hindmarsh; Daga bisani ya yi murabus a shekara ta 1938 don tsayawa takara a zaben fidda gwani na jam'iyyar alderman, wanda ya lashe ba tare da hamayya ba.   Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin memba na Municipal Tramways Trust da East Torrens Board of Health. 

Ya rasu a Asibitin Calvary a shekara ta 1939, sakamakon bugun zuciya yayin da yake murmurewa daga tiyata, kuma an kona shi.   An ba da wani kari ga Babban Garin Burnside "JA Harper Memorial Wing" don girmama shi a watan Disamba. 

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