death_date constituency_mp birth_date birthname term_end restingplace death_place term_start spouse name occupation otherparty predecessor parliament birth_place alongside party office successor article_title
23 july 1947 sturt 02 may 1878 edward matthew horsington 18 october 1927 18 october 1927 29 march 1947 south head cemetery waverley , new south wales 27 may 1927 27 may 1927 20 september 1922 rosalie s. bryksky ted horsington drover , miner industrial labor party jabez wright new south wales timor , victoria mat -rrb- davidson -lrb- 1922-1927 -rrb- brian doe -lrb- 1922-1927 australian labor party secretary for lands minister for forests william wattison ted horsington

ted horsington

edward matthew `` ted '' horsington -lrb- 2 may 1878 -- 23 july 1947 -rrb- was an australian politician .
he was born in timor , victoria , to farmer john waygood horsington and julia , `` née '' farrell .
educated at maryborough , he became a drover and miner after leaving school and worked in queensland , new south wales and western australia before settling in broken hill .
on 31 december 1906 he married rosalie bryksky , with whom he had a daughter .
from 1912 to 1922 he was secretary of the broken hill branch of the federated engine drivers and firemen 's union , and he also served as director of broken hill hospital .
in 1922 , horsington was elected to the new south wales legislative assembly as one of the labor members for sturt .
he continued as member for sturt after the return of single-member divisions in 1927 , and briefly served as secretary for lands and minister for forests from may to october 1927 .
he was expelled from the labor party in 1936 but readmitted later that year , and in june 1939 joined bob heffron 's industrial labor party .
the ilp was reintegrated into the official labor party in august of that year , and horsington continued to represent sturt until he retired in 1947 .
he died at waverley in sydney later that year .
