Date of Birth: 21/12/1876
Place of Birth: Brickfield Hill , New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 27/09/1975
Place of Death: Auburn, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
| Member for Auburn |
27 May 1944 |
15 Aug 1946 |
2 years 2 months 20 days |
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| Member for Auburn |
02 Oct 1943 |
24 Apr 1944 |
6 months 23 days |
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| Member for Auburn |
10 May 1941 |
15 Jul 1943 |
2 years 2 months 6 days |
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| Member for Auburn |
26 Mar 1938 |
18 Apr 1941 |
3 years 24 days |
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| Member for Auburn |
11 May 1935 |
24 Feb 1938 |
2 years 9 months 14 days |
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| Member for Auburn |
11 Jun 1932 |
12 Apr 1935 |
2 years 10 months 2 days |
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| Colonial Treasurer |
04 Nov 1930 |
13 May 1932 |
1 year 6 months 10 days |
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| Premier |
04 Nov 1930 |
13 May 1932 |
1 year 6 months 10 days |
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| Member for Auburn |
25 Oct 1930 |
18 May 1932 |
1 year 6 months 24 days |
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| Member for Auburn |
08 Oct 1927 |
18 Sep 1930 |
2 years 11 months 11 days |
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| Secretary for Lands and Minister for Forests |
25 Nov 1926 |
26 May 1927 |
6 months 2 days |
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| Acting Minister for Agriculture |
23 Mar 1926 |
03 Sep 1926 |
5 months 12 days |
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| Colonial Treasurer |
17 Jun 1925 |
18 Oct 1927 |
2 years 4 months 2 days |
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| Premier |
17 Jun 1925 |
18 Oct 1927 |
2 years 4 months 2 days |
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| Member for Parramatta |
30 May 1925 |
07 Sep 1927 |
2 years 3 months 9 days |
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| Member for Parramatta |
25 Mar 1922 |
18 Apr 1925 |
3 years 25 days |
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| Colonial Treasurer |
20 Dec 1921 |
13 Apr 1922 |
3 months 25 days |
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| Colonial Treasurer |
10 Oct 1921 |
20 Dec 1921 |
2 months 11 days |
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| Colonial Treasurer |
13 Apr 1920 |
10 Oct 1921 |
1 year 5 months 28 days |
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| Member for Parramatta |
20 Mar 1920 |
17 Feb 1922 |
1 year 10 months 29 days |
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| Member for Granville |
24 Mar 1917 |
18 Feb 1920 |
2 years 10 months 26 days |
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| The Governor's Opening Speech Committee No. 1 |
03 Mar 1914 |
03 Mar 1914 |
1 day |
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| Member for Granville |
06 Dec 1913 |
21 Feb 1917 |
3 years 2 months 16 days |
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| Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly |
06 Dec 1913 |
15 Aug 1946 |
32 years 8 months 10 days |
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Political Party Activity
Australian Labor Party (ALP). Campaign director of James Catts 1904, secretary Granville and Auburn branch from c1903, secretary of Nepean Federation Electorate council from 1906; whip 1917-1918; leader 1923-1939, after 1931 of breakaway New South Wales branch; established Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist) in 1941; expelled from Labor in March 1943. Readmitted 1971.
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Real estate agent. Educated at St Francis Marist Brothers' School, Brickfield Hill and, while with uncle in Bairnsdale, local Catholic school; newspaper boy; entered Auburn office of Robert Harley, accountant and estate agent, c1896; in partnership with H. H. Dawes, opened own estate agency and auctioneering firm 1901, which later controlled, managed by family after election to the New South Wales Parliament; director of Labor Daily 1924-1938, established Century 1938, which edited to 1975; secretary of Newington Progress Association 1903-1907; foundation secretary of Auburn Starr-Bowkett Society 1906-1909; published Why I Fight! 1934, Communism in Australia 1944, Communism is Treason 1948, I Remember 1956, The Great Bust 1962, The Turbulent Years 1970.
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Member of the House of Representatives for Reid 1946 - 1949.
Local Government Activity
Alderman Auburn 1906-1914, Mayor 1909-1911, Executive of Local Government Association 1910.
Personal
Son of James Henry Lang, watchmaker, and his wife Mary Whelan. Married on 14 March 1896 to Hilda Amelia Bredt, and had issue, 3 sons and 4 daughters. Funeral at Rookwood Lawn Cemetery from St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral.
Additional Information
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9
A. C. Willis, ‘The Lang plan: a case for Australia’, 1931
M. H. Ellis, ‘The red road : the story of the capture of the Lang Party by
Communists, instructed from Moscow’, 1932
John H. C. Sleeman,’The life of J.T. Lang’, 1935
R. Dixon, ‘The story of J.T. Lang’, 1943
Arthur A Calwell, ‘Lang was never right’, 1949
Jack Lang, ‘I remember: autobiography’, 1956, 1980
Bethia Foott, ‘Dismissal of a Premier: the Philip Game papers’, 1968
Jack Lang, ‘The turbulent years’, 1970
Robert J Cooksey, ‘Lang and socialism: a study in the great depression’, 1971
Miriam Dixson, ‘Greater than Lenin? : Lang and Labor, 1916-1932’, 1977
Bede Nairn, ‘The Big Fella : Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party
1891-1949’, 1986, revised 1996
Guide to the papers of Sir Philip Game and the Game Family in the Mitchell
Library, State Library of New South Wales, 1988
Mark Latham, ‘Forgotten Lang’, 1992
Geoffrey Robinson, ‘How Labor governed : social structures and the formation of
public policy during the New South Wales Lang government of November 1930 to
May 1932’, 2002
Frank Cain, 'Jack Lang and the Great Depression', 2005
National Archives of Australia Fact Sheet 96: 'J. T. Lang and Lang Labor'
http://www.naa.gov.au/fsheets/FS96.html
