predecessor successor parliament birth_place constituency_mp death_date nationality party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
george bell george bell australian ireland darwin 14 september 1943 irish australian liberal -lrb- 1916 & ndash ; 22 -rrb- country -lrb- 1922 -lrb- & ndash ; 25 -rrb- 1909 & ndash ; 16 -rrb- independent 1870 16 december 1922 joshua whitsitt
 3 october 1925 joshua whitsitt farmer
joshua whitsitt

joshua thomas hoskins whitsitt -lrb- 1870 -- 14 september 1943 -rrb- was an australian politician .
born in ireland , where he was educated , he migrated to tasmania as a youth , becoming a bank officer and farmer at cooee .
in 1909 he was elected to the tasmanian house of assembly as one of the members for darwin , representing the commonwealth liberal party .
his erratic voting behaviour eventually led to his becoming an independent , successfully defending his seat in 1916 and 1919 .
in 1922 , he transferred to federal politics , winning the federal seat of darwin in the australian house of representatives for the country party , defeating sitting nationalist member george bell .
he retired in 1925 , returning to farming .
whitsitt died in 1943 .
