John Blackley

John Blackley (6 January 1862 – 10 March 1952) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography Blackley was born in Scotland, and came to Australia as a young man. Settling in Maryborough, he went into business manufacturing aerated water.

In 1883 he married Elizabeth Andrew (died 1942) and together had three sons and two daughters. He died in Maryborough in March 1952

Public career Blackley started off in politics as an alderman on the Maryborough City Council between 1915 and 1922 and for part of that time he was the city's Mayor.

He stood as the Country and Progressive National Party candidate at the 1929 Queensland state election, but was beaten by Labor's David Weir. Weir died three months later and Blackley won the resulting by-election in October of that year, defeating Labor's Kerry Copley.