About Robert Mulvey
Lived 1868 – 1937 (aged 68). Robert Mulvey was a politician and trade union.
Robert Joseph Mulvey (24 November 1868 – 24 April 1937) was a trade union secretary and member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
Mulvey was born at Brisbane, Queensland, to William Mulvey and his wife Margaret Holmes (née McKechnie) and was educated in Brisbane. Premier Ryan tried a new tactic, and later that year advised the Governor, Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams, to appoint thirteen new members whose allegiance lay with Labour to the council.
In 1920, the new Premier Ted Theodore appointed a further fourteen new members to the Council with Mulvey amongst the appointees.
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Australian politician
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Robert Mulvey was born on 24 November 1868 in Brisbane.
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Robert Mulvey died on 24 April 1937 in Brisbane.
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Robert Mulvey was a politician and trade union.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Robert Mulvey. https://biography.guide/robert-mulvey/
MLA: "Robert Mulvey." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/robert-mulvey/.
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