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Billy Hughes was Australia’s prime minister for most of the First World War. He steered the nation through the horrors of the war and the peace settlement debates. Prime Minister from 1915 to 1923, he was a member of the House of Representatives from federation in 1901 until his death in 1952. During his 51 years as a federal politician ...
Died. 28 October 1952. (1952-10-28) (aged 90) Political party. Labor, National Labor, Nationalist, Australian, United Australia, Liberal. William Morris "Billy" Hughes (25 September 1862 – 28 October 1952) was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia. He became Prime Minister during World War I. He tried to introduce conscription but the ...
7th Prime Minister of Australia, Billy Hughes (1862-1952), was in kinship care as a child. William Morris Hughes was born in Pimlico, a working class suburb in London to Welsh parents. His father, William, was a carpenter and his mother, Jane, a domestic servant. When he was six years old, Billy’s mother died and his father sent the child to ...
From the National Archives of Australia collection. William Morris Hughes was Labor Prime Minister in 1915–16, then was expelled from the party over his support for conscription. He held two referendums on the issue, convinced that only compulsory reinforcements of troops overseas would win the war.
Billy Hughes is known for Convoy (1978) and Gone with the West (1974). Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top ...
Hughes' long time colleague William Holman was Premier of NSW from 1913 to 1920. They clashed over constitutional issues but were united on conscription. (State Library of NSW GPO 1 – 13478) NLA vn3308002. Students and teachers at Llandudno Grammar School, c 1870. William Morris Hughes is fourth from the left in the centre row.
William Morris Hughes, often called 'Billy Hughes', was Australia’s 7th prime minister and an important figure in Australia's political and wartime history. When the Labor Party was elected to government on 5 September 1914, after war was declared, Hughes was appointed Attorney General. On 27 October, he became Prime Minister and held that ...
