James Francis Maxwell was a politician in

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, Australia. He was the mayor of the

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and a member of the

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for

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Early life

James Francis Maxwell was born in 1862 in

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, Ireland, the son of Samuel Maxwell and his wife Matilda (née Stoops). On 23 July 1890 he married Alice Annie Letitia Davies at St Peter's Church at West End,

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, the daughter of John Davies, the engineer and manager at the South Brisbane Gas Company who designed the (now heritage-listed) West End Gasworks.

Politics

Maxwell was a member of the Toombul Shire Council and its chairman in 1904 and 1905. Maxwell was the mayor of the City of Brisbane from 1920 to 1921. Maxwell was elected to Queensland Legislative Assembly on the 9 October 1920, for Toowong as a member of the

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. He was re-elected on 15 May 1923 as a member for the Queensland United Party and then re-elected on 8 May 1926 as a member of

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. He did not contest the election of 2 April 1938.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maxwell, James Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1862 births 1941 deaths National Party (Queensland, 1917) members of the Parliament of Queensland Colony of Queensland people Irish emigrants to colonial Australia