predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp death_date children nationality party birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name occupation
aubrey abbott australian thomas treloar sydney gwydir 19 march 1966 jim scully and two other sons australian australian labor party 1 february 1883 8 may 1937 grace myrtle kilbride william scully.jpg william scully -lrb- australian politician -rrb-
 10 december 1949 william scully contractor
william scully -lrb- australian politician -rrb-

william james scully -lrb- 1 february 1883 -- 19 march 1966 -rrb- was an australian politician and farmer .
born in sydney to thomas james scully and his wife sarah lucy rutherford , he was educated at a small school near tamworth .
he and his brothers worked as contract labourers , and by the age of 21 scully was a contractor .
in 1912 he became a justice of the peace .
he was also involved with the tamworth progress association and the primary producers ' union of new south wales .
in 1903 , scully joined the tamworth political labor league and soon rose to become president .
after three unsuccessful attempts to enter the new south wales legislative assembly , in succeeded his brother patrick in the electorate of namoi in 1923 .
at tamworth in 1925 he married grace myrtle kilbride .
although he agreed with many of the views of new south wales premier jack lang , scully remained loyal to the prime minister , james scullin , and to the australian labor party .
he lost namoi in 1932 .
