Joseph Sternberg (1852 – 13 January 1928) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in

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, London, the son of German Jews Alexander Sternberg (1822–1882)''Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844-1997'' from

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, Prussia; and Frederica (Recka or Rivka) Platt. He arrived in Melbourne, Victoria on 18 February 1861 and grew up in Rochester. He became a farmer and an auctioneer, the latter in partnership with his brother. In 1880, he married Selina Lazarus, with whom he had two children. In 1891, he was elected to the

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for Northern Province. He transferred to the new

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in 1904. Sternberg remained in the council as a Liberal and then a

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until his death in Melbourne in 1928.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sternberg, Joseph 1852 births 1928 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council English emigrants to colonial Australia Australian Jews People from Whitechapel Date of birth missing Australian people of German-Jewish descent British emigrants to the Colony of Victoria