James Scullin
Prime Minister from 1929 to 1932
James Henry Scullin was born on 18 September 1876. He went to the local school at Trawalla, Victoria, and then to the Mount Rowan school near Ballarat.
Australia’s ninth Prime Minister was unlucky in his timing. The New York Stock Exchange failure – the ‘Wall Street crash’ – took place in the first week of his government. He faced the crisis of economic depression by attempting to manage a failing economy while implementing Labor reforms.
This was probably the right moment for a Prime Minister remembered as ‘a teetotal, non-smoking, budget pruner’ who was also an honest and stoical man.
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