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he was elected in Sydney
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Edmund Barton was a Barrister and a politician in the NSW government until he became PM. After his Primeministership he was appointed as a high court judge.
Edmond Barton was the Prime Minister of Australia. Yet he was the first Pm.
(he was our first pm and he carried around a gun
Edmund Barton was the first prime minister of Australia and started being prime minister in 1901 and stopped being prime minister in 1903
Worked like a good pm should
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Please add more, 1. he was Aussie's first Pm 2. he was elated to bush poet, banjo patterson :):):):) hope it helped!
Sir Samuel Griffiths was the first CJ and sat in the first high court with Sir Edmund Barton (also first PM) and Richard O'Connor.
Barton became a GCMG (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George) in 1902 He then resigned as PM in September 1903.Shortly after this he was appointed to the High Court of Australia where he spent the next 17 years interpreting the constitution he helped frame. Edmund Barton died suddenly of heart failure in January of 1920, at the age of 70, at Medlow Bath in the Blue Mountains.