John Perry (13 July 1845 – 10 May 1922) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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; his father, Julius Perry, was a bank clerk. He attended public schools at

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and Fort Street, and in 1861 began working for Watkins and Leigh, an importing firm. By the 1870s he was a sugar cane grower, also running a store at Alstonville. On 13 November 1870 he married Susan McAuslan Alston, with whom he had a son. In 1889 he was elected to the

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for

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, belonging to the

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. He transferred to Ballina in 1894, back to Richmond in 1904, and to

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in 1913. During that time he served as Minister of Public Instruction, Labour and Industry (1899–1904), Colonial Secretary (1904),

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(1907–1908) and (1908–1910). After the collapse of the Protectionists' successor, the Progressive Party, in 1904, he joined the

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, along with most of his remaining party colleagues. Perry retired in 1920 and died at

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two years later, aged .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Perry, John 1845 births 1922 deaths Colony of New South Wales people Protectionist Party politicians Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Ministers for agriculture (New South Wales) Ministers for education (New South Wales)