John Kessell

John Henry Kessell (1870 – 15 November 1933) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography Kessell was born in Kadina, South Australia, as the son of John Kessell and his wife Elizabeth (née Williams). He was educated in Bathurst and was a proprietor of the Gladstone Observer newspaper and the chairman director of the Mt. Morgan Co. New South Wales, and his funeral proceeded from the Ashfield Methodist Church to the Field of Mars Cemetery.

Public life Kessell, representing the Ministerialists, contested the seat of Port Curtis at the 1912 state election but lost by two votes to Edward Breslin. The election of Breslin was later declared null and void by Justice Charles Chubb, the elections judge of the Queensland Supreme Court and Kessell won the resulting by-election in October 1912.

He was president of the Australian Provincial Press Association and president of the Queensland Country Press Association.