William Carroll (Australian politician)
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William Carroll | |
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| Senator for Western Australia | |
| In office 1 July 1926 – 30 May 1936 | |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Marwick |
| Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council | |
| In office 11 August 1923 – 21 May 1924 | |
| Constituency | East Province |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 January 1872 |
| Died | 30 May 1936 (aged 64) Concord, New South Wales, Australia |
| Party | Country |
| Spouse |
Annie Nicholson (m. 1898) |
| Occupation | Farmer |
William Carroll (3 January 1872 – 30 May 1936) was an Australian politician. Born in Garvoc, Victoria, he was educated at Horsham before moving to Western Australia during the gold rush to become a miner, and subsequently became a farmer at Tammin. He was General Secretary of the Western Australian Primary Producers' Association, and was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1923 to 1924. In 1925, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Country Party Senator for Western Australia. He remained in the Senate until his death in 1936, necessitating the appointment of Thomas Marwick to replace him.[1]
Carroll was born on 3 January 1872 in Garvoc, Victoria. He was the second of eight surviving children born to Mary (née Larkin) and James Carroll; his father was born in Scotland and his mother in Ireland.[2]
Carroll grew up on his father's farm near Horsham and attended a local state school; his father was also the secretary of the Wimmera Shire Council. After leaving school he farmed wheat in the Wimmera until 1898, when he was forced by the Federation Drought to abandon farming and move to Melbourne in search of employment.[2]
In May 1898, Carroll moved to Western Australia,[2] initially living in Fremantle where he worked as a commercial traveller.[3] He then moved to the Eastern Goldfields and worked as a gold miner. In 1903 he was nearly killed in an accident in the Perseverance mine at Boulder, "when a rope snapped and he was buried in a vat of crushed ore".[2] He also worked in the Lancefield gold mine at Laverton.[3] Carroll was appointed as a justice of the peace in 1907. He returned to farming in 1910, buying a property in Tammin in Western Australia's Wheatbelt.[2]