{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Harry Turley | honorific_suffix = | image = Harry Turley 1908 (cropped).jpg | office = President of the Senate | term_start = 1 July 1910 | term_end = 8 July 1913 | predecessor = Albert Gould | successor = Thomas Givens | office2 = Senator for Queensland | term_start2 = 1 January 1904 | term_end2 = 30 June 1917 | constituency_AM3 = South Brisbane | assembly3 = Queensland Legislative | term_start3 = 6 May 1893 | term_end3 = 11 March 1899 | predecessor3 = Abraham Luya | successor3 = Abraham Luya | term_start4 = 22 July 1899 | term_end4 = 11 March 1902 | predecessor4 = Abraham Luya | successor4 = Alec Lamont | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1859|4|24}} | birth_place = Gloucestershire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1929|6|5|1859|4|24}} | death_place = South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | resting_place = South Brisbane Cemetery | birth_name = Joseph Henry Lewis Turley | spouse = Mary Smith (m.1886 d.1947) | party = Australian Labor Party | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Waterside worker | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Joseph Henry Lewis Turley''' (24 April 1859 – 5 June 1929) was an English-born Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and an Australian Senator.<ref name="qp" />
==Early life == Turley was born on 24 April 1859 in Gloucester, England. He was the son of Agnes (née Oliver) and Charles Turley; his father was a master shoemaker.<ref name=adb>{{cite news|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/turley-joseph-henry-lewis-8879|title=Joseph Henry Lewis Turley (1859–1929)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|year=1990|volume=12|first=Brian F.|last=Stevenson}}</ref><ref name=bio>{{Cite Au Senate |Sen id=joseph-henry-lewis-turley |name=Turley, Joseph Henry Lewis (1859–1929): Senator for Queensland, 1904–17 (Labor Party) |first=Geoffrey |last=Browne |year=2000 |access-date=2021-07-12}}</ref>
Turley was educated in Brixham and went to sea at a young age. He arrived in Australia in 1879 and found work in Brisbane as a wharf labourer. He joined the Wharf Labourers' Union and eventually became secretary and president. During the 1890 maritime dispute, he was a member of the intercolonial defence committee organised by William Spence.<ref name=adb/> He also represented the Queensland Shearers' Union as a delegate to negotiating conferences in Sydney during the 1891 shearers' strike.<ref name=bio/>
==State politics== thumb|left|{{center|1910 Labor Senate ticket, with Turley on right}} In 1893, Harry Turley was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for South Brisbane,<ref name="qp">{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015|url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1357010454|accessdate=2 February 2015|archive-date=3 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203030526/http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1357010454|url-status=live}}</ref> serving as Home Secretary in Anderson Dawson's short-lived Labor Government in 1899.<ref name="qp" /> In 1902 he left the Assembly.<ref name="qp" />
==Federal politics== Turley first stood for federal parliament at the inaugural federal election in 1901, unsuccessfully standing for the ALP in the House of Representatives seat of Oxley. He was elected to the Senate at the 1903 federal election.<ref name=bio/>
On 1 July 1910, he was appointed President of the Senate, a position he held until 8 July 1913. He remained a Senator until his defeat in 1917.<ref name=bio/>
==Personal life== Turley married Mary Smith in 1886, with whom he had four children.<ref name=bio/>
After leaving politics, Turley became a shipping master with the Queensland Harbours and Rivers Department. Turley died in 1929 and was buried in South Brisbane Cemetery.<ref>[https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=110871 Turley, Henry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203021032/https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=110871 |date=3 February 2015 }} — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 5 November 2011.</ref><ref name=Psephos>{{cite web|last=Carr|first=Adam|title=Australian Election Archive|work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia|year=2008|accessdate=2008-11-16|archive-date=6 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006075129/http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Harry Turley}}
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