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	Billy Hughes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hughes was born in London of Welsh parents: his father was a carpenter at the House of Lords.
		Hughes was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Labour member in 1894.
		Hughes was furious at this betrayal by his party and nursed his grievance on the back-benches until 1929, when he led a group of back-bench rebels who crossed the floor of the Parliament to bring down the Bruce government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Morris_Hughes (1400 words)

	Australian War Memorial - Australia's Prime Ministers: William Morris Hughes
		Hughes travelled to England in early 1916, ostensibly for discussions on the intentions of Japan in the Pacific, but while there he urged the application of greater economic pressure on Germany and more cooperation between England and her dominions.
		Hughes was able to form a new cabinet with those who followed him out of the Labor Party, and he hoped that this group could form the basis of a new party.
		Hughes, having been successful on those points he believed vital to Australia's interest, arrived home to a heroes' welcome; however, the end of the war saw his popularity wane, and he was defeated in the 1922 election.
	www.awm.gov.au /pm/detail.asp?surname=Hughes (869 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Billy Hughes
		William Morris ('Billy') Hughes (1862-1952) served as Australia's Prime Minister from 1915-23, a more martial figure than his predecessor Andrew Fisher and with views on the prosecution of the war more in line with those of the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
		Hughes travelled to Britain in January 1916 to argue for greater Australian involvement in determining the conduct of the war.
		Hughes travelled to London again in April 1918 to attend the Imperial War Cabinet and was in London when the armistice was agreed.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/hughes.htm (730 words)

	Hughes
		On the resignation of the prime minister in October 1915 Hughes was elected unanimously as his replacement, but his attitude to the imposition of Commonwealth control in industrial relations, commerce and monopolies alienated some Labor supporters.
		Hughes was enormously popular in France because of his repeated attacks on German commercial power and because of his flamboyant rhetoric.
		Hughes attended several Imperial War Cabinet meetings in London during 1918, arguing the economic case for Australia and advocating the exclusion of Japan from the Pacific.
	www.lib.byu.edu /estu/wwi/bio/h/hughesb.html (730 words)

	Billy Hughes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Over the course of his 51-year parliamentary career, Hughes represented four different electorates and was expelled from three different political parties.
		In 1901 Hughes was elected to the first federal Parliament as Labor MP for.
		This did not deter Hughes, who argued viciously and vigorously in favour of it, producing a deep and bitter split in his own party as well as in the Australian community In November 1916 he was expelled from the Labor Party.
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	Papers of William Morris Hughes - MS 1538
		Hughes twice sought through referenda the approval of the electorate for compulsory military service, was expelled from the Labor Party and founded a new one, the National Party, and represented Australia at the Economic Conference of the Allies in 1916, the Imperial Conferences of 1918 and 1921 and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
		Hughes was well known as an entertaining and at times inspiring speaker and, in addition to many addresses to Parliament and to election rallies, he spoke on a wide variety of subjects to innumerable conventions, dinners, gatherings of various sorts, and ceremonies.
		Hughes was a member throughout, with the exception of a brief period early in 1944 when he temporarily obeyed a United Australia Party ruling that its representatives withdraw from the council.
	www.nla.gov.au /nla.ms-ms1538 (12187 words)

	Billy Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hughes was born in London of WalesWelsh parents: his father was a carpenter at the House of Lords.
		Hughes and his followers formed a minority government, and he negotiated with the Commonwealth Liberal PartyLiberal leader, Joseph Cook to form a new party, the Nationalist Party of AustraliaNationalist Party.
		Hughes, after receiving a vote of confidence in his leadership, resigned as Prime Minister, but as there were no alternative candidates Governor-General Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar of RaithSir Ronald Munro-Ferguson/ immediately re-comissioned him, thus allowing him to remain as Prime Minister while keeping his promise to resign.
	www.infothis.com /find/Billy_Hughes (1597 words)

	William Morris Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William ('Billy') Hughes was born in Pimlico London and from the age of seven was raised in his Welsh-speaking aunt's house in Llandudno, Wales.
		Hughes became active in the labour movement in the early 1890s, winning a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Labor candidate in 1894.
		Hughes fought and lost a second referendum on conscription in 1917, remaining Prime Minister until 1922.
	www.liswa.wa.gov.au /federation/sec/061_hugh.htm (230 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hughes William Morris
		Hughes, William Morris (1862-1952), Australian politician who served as prime minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.
		Morris, William (1834-96), English poet, artist, and socialist reformer, who urged a return to medieval traditions of design, craftsmanship, and...
		Hunt, William Morris (1824-1879), American painter, born in Brattleboro, Vermont, and educated at Harvard University.
	encarta.msn.com /Hughes_William_Morris.html (124 words)

	William Hughes
		William Morris Hughes was born in London in 1864.
		Hughes became Attorney-General in the 1910 Labour Government and succeeded Andrew Fisher as prime minister in October 1915.
		Hughes continued to lead a coalition government after leaving the Labour Party and represented Australia at the Versailles Peace Conference.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWhughesW.htm (419 words)

	Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William Morris Hughes was Australia’s longest serving Prime Minister until 1957 when Robert Menzies overtook Hughes’ record term from 1915 to 1923.
		Hughes’ other record still stands: no parliamentarian has surpassed his 51 years and 7 months of continuous service as a member of Australia’s House of Representatives — from the 1st parliament in 1901 to the 20th in 1952.
		After the war, Hughes was instrumental in the international recognition of Australia as an independent nation through its membership of the League of Nations.
	primeministers.naa.gov.au /meetpm.asp?pmId=8 (244 words)

	Index Ho-Hy
		When William McKinley was nominated for president in 1896 on a platform stressing hard money and a high tariff, Hobart was a natural choice for second place on the ticket; he came from a densely populated state and was an avid supporter of the gold standard.
		Hughes quit politics at the height of his popularity, retiring from the Senate after one term in 1974 to devote himself to lay religious work and open the Harold Hughes Center for alcoholism treatment.
		Hughes contributed to Stanley Bruce's defeat in 1929 and served in the cabinet (1934-41) under the United Australian Party administrations of Joseph Lyons and Sir Robert Menzies.
	rulers.org /indexh3.html (16979 words)

	BBC - North West Wales - Hall of Fame
		Biography: William Morris Hughes was the first Australian Prime Minister to give his country a voice on the international stage, during WWI.
		William Morris Hughes was active in Australian politics, and became a member of Australia's House of Representatives in 1901.
		William was a native of Llandudno and Jane a native of Llansantffraid, Powys.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/northwest/halloffame/public_life/wwhughes.shtml (712 words)

	National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Prime Ministers - Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William Morris Hughes served as Prime Minister from 27 October 1915 to 9 February 1923.
		Hughes was sent as a delegate to the League of Nations in 1932 and was elected Leader of the United Australia Party (1941–43).
		WM Hughes suffered from a variety of ailments and insisted that Mary Hughes accompany him as his nurse on his numerous official trips overseas.
	www.naa.gov.au /the_collection/prime_ministers/hughes.html (1328 words)

	Hughes & Related Families
		Hughes, Harold E. 1922- Governor; born in Ida Grove, Iowa.
		Hughes, Richard (Joseph) 1909 -- 1992, Governor, judge; born in Florence, N.J. A lawyer, he served as a New Jersey county and superior court judge before opening his own practice in 1957.
		Hughes, Vernon W. (Willard) 1921-, Physicist; born in Kankakee, Ill. He taught at Columbia University (1949--52) and the University of Pennsylvania (1952--54) before joining Yale (1954).
	www.hughesfamilies.com /index.cfm?Fuseaction=HughesInHistory (1052 words)

	Morris, William -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Morris was hired by Klaw and Erlanger, heads of a legitimate theatre trust, to book vaudeville acts for their theatre chain.
		William Morris Stewart was born on Aug. 9, 1827, in Galen, N.Y. He was an expert on mining law and represented some of the largest companies in the West.
		Hunt was born on Oct. 31, 1827, in Brattleboro, Vt. His brother was the painter William Morris Hunt.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9053820 (641 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 73 - William Morris Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hughes favoured conscription for overseas service as a means of maintaining Australia's supply of troops to the war zone.
		Hughes remained in parliament and was a senior member of non-Labor governments until his death in 1952.
		Hughes' personal records, as well as a selection of records about Hughes and the issues he was involved in, appear below.
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/fs73.html (721 words)

	Forging The Nation - Prime Ministers
		Joseph Cook was Prime Minister at the outbreak of the First World War and pledged his country's support to Britain, but was quickly succeeded, briefly by Fisher, then by William Morris Hughes.
		The fiery and unscrupulous Hughes became the dominant political figure of the time.
		William Morris Hughes was a founder of the Australian Labor Party and became Prime Minister in 1915.
	www.awm.gov.au /forging/federation/pm.htm (271 words)

	The lonely death of Billy Hughes' daughter - National - www.theage.com.au
		In keeping with the strict moral code of the day, Hughes and his second wife, Mary, never cast any further light on the cause of Helen's death, believing they had taken her secret to the grave with them.
		The irony is that while seemingly convinced that Helen's memory would have been sullied by the revelation of her illegitimate son, Hughes himself had fathered six children out of wedlock with his first partner, de facto wife Elizabeth Cutts.
		Hughes later married Mary, and Helen was born on August 11, 1915, when Hughes was 52 and Mary 41.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/08/06/1091732087776.html?from=storyrhs (691 words)

	Prime Ministers of Australia
		William Morris Hughes was Australia's eleventh Prime Minister.
		Hughes was Prime Minister from 27th of October 1915 to the 9th of February 1923.
		On 28 June 1919, Hughes, Prime Minister and Federal Attorney General and Joseph Cook signed the Treaty of Versailles as an "independent belligerent nation", supported by George Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson of the US and Lloyd George of the UK.
	www.schools.ash.org.au /elanorah/pmhughes.htm (387 words)

	Hughes, William Morris - Australian Trade Union Archives Biographical entry
		In 1893 Hughes was appointed an Australian Workers' Union organiser.
		Hughes founded the Trolley, Draymen & Carters' Union and became its foundation President.
		Hughes succeeded Fisher as Prime Minister in 1915 and went on to become one of Australia's most controversial leaders, thanks largely to his pro-conscription efforts during the First World War.
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE1211b.htm (226 words)

	Art Passions: William Morris Art
		William Morris patterns have been popular since the end of the 19th century and have never lost their appeal.
		With Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Arthur Hughes, and the other preRaphaelites, he changed the direction of English art, architecture, and design -- and began a return to values of craftsmanship and quality materials that continue to enjoy a renaissance in these areas.
		Morris designs for textile, stained glass, bookplates, tapestries, calligraphy, wallpapers, paintings, drawings, furniture, more.
	www.artpassions.net /morris/morris.html (506 words)

	William Morris Hughes Biography / Biography of William Morris Hughes Biography Biography
		William Morris Hughes (1864-1952) was an English-born Australian statesman.
		The son of Welsh parents, William Morris Hughes was born in London on Sept. 25, 1864.
		Elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1894, Hughes supported federation and was a candidate for the House of Representatives in 1901, when the Commonwealth Constitution came into force.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-morris-hughes (251 words)

	Morris, William -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		A poet and painter, William Morris was first of all a practical, working artist.
		Known as a great portraitist, William Morris Hunt created a fashion in the United States for French art.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053819?tocId=9053819&query=william (618 words)

	Hughes Coat of Arms
		The ancestors of the bearers of the Hughes surname were Welsh Brythonic Celts.
		However, the name Hughes came to Britain with the Norman invasion; it is derived from the Old French personal name Hughe, also spelled Hue.
		This name was made popular by the exploits of several saints including: St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140-1200), who was born in Burgundy, France and established the first Carthusian monastery in England, as well as St. Hugh of Cluny (1024-1109).
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/hughes-coat-arms.htm (566 words)

	Morris, William
		William Morris Stewart - Stewart, William Morris, 1827–1909, American lawyer and political leader, b.
		William Morris Davis - Davis, William Morris, 1850–1934, American geographer, geologist, and teacher, b.
		William Morris - Morris, William, 1834–96, English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0158057.html (86 words)

	The Parliament of Australia: A Bibliography: Prime_Ministers/Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fitzhardinge, Lawrence F. William Morris Hughes: A Political Biography, Vol.
		Hudson, W. Billy Hughes in Paris: The Birth of Australian Diplomacy.
		Morgan, J. "William Morris Hughes: His Career and Work." In The War and Wales.
	indiana.edu /~librcsd/bib/australia_parliament/Prime_Ministers/Hughes (440 words)

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