1918 Queensland state election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 16 March 1918 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
Image: T. J. Ryan, 1918 (cropped)
Image: Edward Henry Macartney Queensland politician (cropped)
Thomas Joseph Ryan was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland from 1915 to 1919, as leader of the state Labor Party. He resigned to enter federal politics, sitting in the House of Representatives for the federal Labor Party from 1919 until his premature death less than two years later.
Ryan in 1916
Ryan in 1920
Statue of Thomas J. Ryan in Queens Gardens, Brisbane
T. J. Ryan's headstone at Brisbane's Toowong Cemetery