John George Gough
Australian politician
Born on: November 5, 1848Died on: November 15, 1907
Aged: 59 years 10 days (708 months)
Birth Sign: Scorpio
John George Gough was one of the founders of the New South Wales Labour Party, initially the Labour Electoral League, the first political Labour movement in Australia.
He was also one of Labour's five-member leadership group when the party first made its appearance in the New South Wales parliament in 1891.
Representing Young, he was first elected in 1889 to the parliament's lower house as a member of the Protectionist Party, which produced Australia's first two prime ministers, Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin.
From 1891 to 1894 he represented Labour. Proud that his mother was Australian-born, he was a strong nationalist and republican. John Gough's maternal grandmother was half-aboriginal.
He is the only one of Labor's founding fathers who has been found to have had aboriginal ancestry.
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