predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp death_date death_place nationality party birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name occupation
austin chapman john cusack australian john cusack allan fraser gocup , new south wales eden-monaro 13 july 1954 manly , new south wales australian nationalist -lrb- 1931 & ndash ; 43 -rrb- -lrb- 1926 & ndash ; 1929 -rrb- uap 18 may 1878 6 march 1926 19 december 1931 evelyn mary bray john arthur perkins.jpg john perkins -lrb- australian politician -rrb-
 12 december 1929 21 august 1943 john perkins local councillor
john perkins -lrb- australian politician -rrb-

john arthur perkins -lrb- 18 may 1878 -- 13 july 1954 -rrb- was an australian politician and journalist .
perkins was born at gocup near tumut , new south wales and educated at public schools in tumut and cooma .
he was a member of the cooma municipal council from 1902 to 1909 and mayor in 1904 and 1908 .
he married evelyn mary bray in 1909 .
perkins contested the new south wales legislative assembly seat of monaro in 1904 and in 1907 , without success .
in 1921 , he was selected to fill a casual vacancy for goulburn -lrb- which , during the proportional representation experiment from 1920 to 1927 , was a multi-electorate that included the former monaro district -rrb- for the nationalist party .
