About Samuel Barnes
Lived 1865 – 1951 (aged 85–86). Samuel Barnes was a politician.
Samuel Barnes (c. 1865 – 13 March 1951) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Cornwall, England to miner Samuel Meyn Barnes and Jane Mitchell.
In 1910, Barnes was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Walhalla as a Liberal, later transitioning to the Nationalist Party. He was briefly a minister without portfolio from 18 September 1917 to 29 November 1917, and served as Minister of Railways and Mines from 21 March 1918 to 7 September 1923. He lost his seat to a Country Party candidate in March 1927 and retired from politics. Barnes died in Fitzroy in 1951.
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Samuel Barnes died on 13 March 1951.
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