John Crane (Australian politician)

John Thomas Crane (12 February 1868 – 6 August 1948) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Warialda to grazier John Crane and Elizabeth McGee. He attended Tamworth Grammar School and then the University of Sydney, where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1887. In 1888 he began a stock and station agency at Moree. On 31 July 1891 he married Charlotte Mary Gall, with whom he would have six children. From 1894 he worked as a land agent in addition to his farming, and he also served on Moree Council as mayor in 1903, 1905–06 and 1908–13. In 1913, with endorsement from the Liberal Reform Party and the Farmers and Settlers Association, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Gwydir. He was a minister without portfolio assisting the Secretary for Lands from February to April 1920, but he was defeated at the 1920 elections contesting the multi-member seat of Namoi. Crane died in Moree in 1948.^[1]

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