{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Ernest Carr | honorific_suffix = | image = Ernest Carr1.jpg | constituency_MP = Macquarie | parliament = Australian | majority = | predecessor = Sydney Smith | successor = Samuel Nicholls | term_start = 12 December 1906 | term_end = 5 May 1917 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1875|9|28}} | birth_place = Dubbo, New South Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1956|9|17|1875|9|28}} | death_place = Parramatta, New South Wales | spouse = | party = Labor (1906–1916) <br> National Labor (1916–1917) <br> Nationalist (1917) | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Journalist | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Ernest Shoebridge Carr''' (28 September 1875 – 17 September 1956) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1906 until 1917 for the electorate of Macquarie, representing the Australian Labor Party until the 1916 Labor split and thereafter joining the new Nationalist Party. He was later a Nationalist member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1920 to 1922, representing the electorate of Cumberland.
==Early life and career==
Carr was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, the son of a soap manufacturer. He was educated at state schools until the age of 14, when he left school to work in his father's factory. He took over a Dubbo real estate agency at the age of 19 but sold out two years later and entered into partnership as a building contractor at Bourke, with the Bourke Lands Office and Wentworth Post Office among Carr's projects. At 23, he then bought the Orange-based newspaper ''The Leader'' and converted it from a bi-weekly into a daily. He edited ''The Leader'' for seven years, but sold the newspaper after his election to parliament.<ref name=nsw/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141339163 |title=MR. T. CROUCH |newspaper=Wellington Times |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 October 1949 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=9 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article157349412 |title=Personal Sketches |newspaper=The National Advocate |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 July 1910 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=2 |via=Trove }}</ref>
==Federal and state politics==
Carr won Macquarie at the 1906 federal election. He comfortably held his seat over subsequent elections until his expulsion from the ALP over his support for conscription in September 1916 during the 1916 Labor split.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166786475 |title=Personal. |newspaper=The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=30 September 1916 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=4 |via=Trove }}</ref> In February 1917, along with the other former Labor MPs expelled during the split, Carr joined the newly formed pro-conscription Nationalist Party of Australia. In one of the closest polling results in Australian electoral history, Carr lost the 1917 election by nine votes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158480920 |title=NICHOLLS WINS |newspaper=The National Advocate |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=5 June 1917 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=2 |via=Trove }}</ref>
After the loss of his federal seat, Carr returned to journalism and bought a Hawkesbury based newspaper. He then returned to politics when he successfully stood as the Nationalist candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Cumberland in 1920. Carr lost his seat at the 1922 election.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85870322 |title=Week to Week. |newspaper=Windsor and Richmond Gazette |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=14 April 1922 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=4 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref name=caobit />
==Post-parliament==
Carr listed his occupation as "company manager" in the 1920s, when he was recorded as living at Mosman. He was a serial Nationalist preselection candidate for New South Wales-based seats through the 1920s, contesting Cumberland as an independent in 1925 and standing as an endorsed Nationalist at the 1928 and 1929 federal elections. He unsuccessfully sought Nationalist preselection for a final time at the 1930 state election.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85890166 |title=PERSONAL |newspaper=Windsor and Richmond Gazette |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=11 July 1930 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=4 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137852127 |title=MAITLAND STATE ELECTION. |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=16 July 1930 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=6 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37353513 |title=Labour Sweeps the Polls[?]Bruce Government Defeated. |newspaper=The Longreach Leader |location=Queensland, Australia |date=18 October 1929 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=18 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72014056 |title=HEW SOUTH WALES. |newspaper=The Capricornian |location=Queensland, Australia |date=29 November 1928 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=75 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158956296 |title=FULLERISM IN DANGER |newspaper=The National Advocate |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 June 1925 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=2 |via=Trove }}</ref> He was a veteran supporter of the New England New State Movement during the 1920s.<ref name=caobit />
In later years Carr relocated to Parramatta and was again described as a journalist, reportedly associated with Cumberland Newspapers Limited. He was a member of the Granville Chamber of Commerce and in the 1940s was also engaged in tin and copper mining.<ref name=caobit>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131386854 |title=Death of Former Member of Parliament |newspaper=The Cumberland Argus |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 September 1956 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=1 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168517642 |title=Personal. |newspaper=The Wingham Chronicle And Manning River Observer |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=27 March 1942 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=2 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219510120 |title=MINING FOR COPPER |newspaper=The Forbes Advocate |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 March 1943 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=2 |via=Trove }}</ref> He was an outspoken proponent of social credit theory in later years, standing as a Social Credit Party candidate at the 1937 federal election, serving as the state secretary of the Social Credit Movement for Australia during the mid-1940s, and writing many letters to the editor on the subject over many years. He was also the state secretary and a key figure in the short-lived One Parliament for Australia party in 1943.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219614927 |title=PERSONAL |newspaper=Lithgow Mercury |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 March 1946 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=2 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205565431 |title=Social Credit Candidates. |newspaper=The Age |location=Victoria, Australia |date=16 August 1937 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=12 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247791670 |title=Parties Sum Up Their Chances In Tomorrow's Election |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=Sydney |date=20 August 1943 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=7 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61840269 |title=LABOR MAY WIN 47 SEATS |newspaper=Townsville Daily Bulletin |location=Queensland, Australia |date=24 August 1943 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=1 |via=Trove }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article181124866 |title=House r of Representatives |newspaper=The Week |location=Brisbane |date=26 October 1928 |access-date=16 December 2019 |page=34 |via=Trove }}</ref>
Carr died at Parramatta in 1956 and was cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium. He was survived by his wife, two daughters and two sons.<ref name=nsw>{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Ernest Shoebridge Carr (1875–1956) |id=1286 |former=Yes |accessdate=11 May 2019}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au}} {{succession box | title=Member for Macquarie | before=Sydney Smith | after=Samuel Nicholls | years=1906–1917}} {{s-par|au-nsw-la}} {{succession box | title=Member for Cumberland | before=New seat | after=William FitzSimons | alongside=<br>Molesworth, Walker | years=1920–1922}} {{s-end}}
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