About: Joseph Cahill

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

John Joseph Cahill (21 January 1891 – 22 October 1959), also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1959. Born the son of Irish migrants in Redfern, New South Wales, Cahill worked for the New South Wales Government Railways from the age of 16 before joining the Australian Labor Party. Being a prominent unionist organiser, including being dismissed for his role in the 1917 general strike, Cahill was eventually elected to the Parliament of New South Wales for St George in 1925.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • John Joseph Cahill (21 January 1891 – 22 October 1959), also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1959. Born the son of Irish migrants in Redfern, New South Wales, Cahill worked for the New South Wales Government Railways from the age of 16 before joining the Australian Labor Party. Being a prominent unionist organiser, including being dismissed for his role in the 1917 general strike, Cahill was eventually elected to the Parliament of New South Wales for St George in 1925. After many years of backbench service, including a term outside of parliament, Cahill was eventually appointed Secretary for Public Works in 1941 and Minister for Local Government in the government of William McKell in 1944, where he led significant reforms of local government in the state, including establishing a Royal commission in 1945, and passing the landmark Local Government (Areas) Act of 1948. Promoted to Deputy Premier in 1949, Cahill became Premier of New South Wales from April 1952 to his death in October 1959. His term as premier is primarily remembered for his government's role in post-war infrastructure development, which included the commissioning of the Sydney Opera House and construction of the expressway which now bears his name. (en)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1891-01-21 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:child
dbo:deathDate
  • 1959-10-22 (xsd:date)
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:party
dbo:restingPlace
dbo:termPeriod
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 496803 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 46290 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1118424256 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:after
dbp:as
  • Minister for Local Government and Housing (en)
dbp:before
dbp:birthDate
  • 1891-01-21 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:children
dbp:constituencyMp
dbp:deathDate
  • 1959-10-22 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
dbp:deputy
dbp:governor
dbp:honorificPrefix
dbp:monarch
dbp:name
  • Joseph Cahill (en)
dbp:order
dbp:parliament
  • New South Wales (en)
dbp:party
dbp:predecessor
dbp:premier
dbp:restingplace
dbp:rows
  • 2 (xsd:integer)
dbp:spouse
  • (en)
  • Esmey Mary Kelly (en)
dbp:successor
dbp:termEnd
  • 1952-04-02 (xsd:date)
  • 1959-10-22 (xsd:date)
dbp:termStart
  • 1941-05-10 (xsd:date)
  • 1941-05-16 (xsd:date)
  • 1944-06-08 (xsd:date)
  • 1949-09-21 (xsd:date)
  • 1952-04-02 (xsd:date)
dbp:title
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:with
dbp:years
  • 1953 (xsd:integer)
  • 19251930 (xsd:integer)
  • 19301932 (xsd:integer)
  • 19351941 (xsd:integer)
  • 19411952 (xsd:integer)
  • 19411959 (xsd:integer)
  • 19441952 (xsd:integer)
  • 19491952 (xsd:integer)
  • 19521959 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • John Joseph Cahill (21 January 1891 – 22 October 1959), also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1959. Born the son of Irish migrants in Redfern, New South Wales, Cahill worked for the New South Wales Government Railways from the age of 16 before joining the Australian Labor Party. Being a prominent unionist organiser, including being dismissed for his role in the 1917 general strike, Cahill was eventually elected to the Parliament of New South Wales for St George in 1925. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Joseph Cahill (en)
rdfs:seeAlso
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Joseph Cahill (en)
is dbo:deputy of
is dbo:firstLeader of
is dbo:minister of
is dbo:predecessor of
is dbo:primeMinister of
is dbo:producer of
is dbo:successor of
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:after of
is dbp:afterElection of
is dbp:alongside of
is dbp:before of
is dbp:beforeElection of
is dbp:candidate of
is dbp:deputy of
is dbp:deputyGovernmentHead of
is dbp:governmentHead of
is dbp:introducedBy of
is dbp:leader of
is dbp:minister of
is dbp:predecessor of
is dbp:premier of
is dbp:producer of
is dbp:successor of
is dbp:with of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License