Richard Hooper (Australian politician)

Richard Hooper (25 January 1846 – 24 July 1909) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Wallaroo from 1891 to 1902.[1][2][3]

Hooper was born in Cornwall in England and arrived in South Australia in 1858. He was a miner at Moonta, and became president of the Moonta Amalgamated Miners' Association in 1889.[4] Hooper was the first Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly, but was not a member of the newly formed United Labor Party, instead serving as an Independent Labor member. He was first elected at the 1891 Wallaroo by-election on 23 May. He was re-elected as an Independent Labor member in 1893, 1896 and 1899; although he attended caucus meetings he never joined the United Labor Party.[5] After his parliamentary career, he moved to Western Australia, where he worked as a nightwatchman and was active in the Labor Party there.[4]

References
  1. "Richard Hooper". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  2. "Direct Labor candidates". The Advertiser. 27 January 1893. p. 5. Retrieved 24 August 2022 – via Trove.
  3. "Uncompleted returns". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. 30 April 1896. p. 12. Retrieved 24 August 2022 – via Trove.
  4. Coxon, Howard F.; Playford, John & Reid, Robert (1985). Biographical Register of the South Australian Parliament, 1857-1957. Wakefield Press. p. 111. ISBN 9780949268242. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  5. Slee, Ron (1983). "Hooper, Richard (1846–1909)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 24 August 2022.


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