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This is a List of Fathers of the Australian House of Representatives. The Father of the House of Representatives is an informal title that carries no parliamentary responsibilities. It is held by the member who has served longer, continuously, than any other currently serving member. Where two or more members have equal lengths of continuous service, more than any other currently serving members, they are known as the joint Fathers of the House of Representatives. Joint Fathers are shown in small type in the following list. The only Father of the House of Representatives with broken service but whose latter period of continuous service was sufficiently long to qualify was Eddie Ward. The first House of Representatives was elected in March 1901. The election was held on Friday 29 March in South Australia and Tasmania, and on Saturday 30 March in the other states. Despite that slight variation in the election date, all the members elected to the First Parliament were considered to have had equal seniority. It follows that there could not be a "longest-serving member" until only one member from the First Parliament was still in the House. That occurred on 8 April 1935 with the death of David Watkins, leaving Billy Hughes as the inaugural Father of the House of Representatives. Hughes was also the inaugural Father of the Parliament from 1938. Since that date the Fathers and joint Fathers of the House of Representatives have been: ==See also== *Father of the House * Father of the Australian Senate * Father of the Australian Parliament * Members of the Australian Parliament who have served for at least 30 years * (Parliamentary Handbook: Members of the House of Representatives since 1901 ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Father of the Australian House of Representatives」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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