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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Adamson was
an English-born Australian politician. Born in Durham, he received a
primary education before becoming a shoemaker, blacksmith and lay
preacher. He migrated to Australia in 1878, becoming a Methodist
minister in Queensland. In 1907, he was elected to the Queensland
Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Maryborough, serving until
1909. He was re-elected as the member for Rockhampton in 1911, serving
until 1917; he was Secretary for Railways 1915-1916. Adamson left the
Labor Party in the wake of the 1916 split over conscription, joining the
Nationalist Party. In 1919, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a
Nationalist Senator for Queensland. He died in 1922, however, before the
expiry of his term; the Queensland Labor Government appointed John
MacDonald, a Labor member, as his replacement.
