1869 Kennedy colonial by-election
The 1869 Kennedy colonial by-election was a
Queensland Legislative Assembly
.
History
On 11 June 1869,
Thomas Henry FitzGerald, member for Kennedy, resigned. Rt Hon John Bright, an English Radical politician, was nominated as a form of protest, and won the resulting by-election on 10 July 1869. He never took his seat in the Queensland Parliament; indeed it is unknown if he knew he was either nominated or elected.[1][2]
See also
References
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- Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2014.