Alfred Arthur O'Connor was a wild-card Irish miner who attended the Melbourne Land Convention 1857 and was elected onto the Ballarat Mining Board 1858; he followed the big gold rush to Chiltern in 1859 and was a successful deep wet lead miner. He stood as a candidate for the Ovens election in 1859 and lost. Returned to Ballarat and was elected into parliament for Grenville during 1861.[1]

O'Connor moved to Sydney in 1872 and was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1873 Mudgee by-election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.[2][3]

His activities on the Ovens covered in detail in Shenanigans on the Ovens Goldfields: the 1859 election.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Alfred Arthur O'Conner". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Candidates for the district of Mudgee". The Empire. 25 August 1873. p. 2. Retrieved 11 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Green, Antony. "1873 results Mudgee". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  4. ↑ O'Brien, Antony & O'Brien, Gregory (2005). Shenanigans on the Ovens Goldfields: the 1859 election. Artillery Publishing. ISBN 9780975801307.
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