Charles Culley Politician

Charles Ernest Culley CMG (16 April 1877 – 10 June 1949) was an Australian politician who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the Australian House of Representatives.Culley was born at Broadmarsh, near Brighton, Tasmania and attended primary school. He worked in stables and was occasionally a jockey. He later worked as a miner at Broken Hill, Beaconsfield and Tullah and married Mary Jane Pope, in 1906. He was elected secretary of the Amalgamated Miners' Association in 1912. He moved to Hobart in 1913 and became prominent in the union movement. He was president of the Hobart Trades Hall Council for most of the period from 1934 to 1944.