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Born in Adelaide to grocer Richard Cotton and Esther Ann Payne, he was educated privately and worked on a cattle station in Portuguese Lincoln before arriving in New South Wales in 1875.
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Francis Cotton
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After working as a shearer, farmer and drover, he moved to Sydney to become a journalist in 1889 and was editor of the Democrat, a single tax paper, in 1891. He had founded the Forbes tax reform group in 1887 and joined the Single Tax League in 1889. In 1890 he represented Wagga Wagga on the Trades and Labor Council, and in 1891 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Newtown, serving until 1894.
From 1895 to 1901 he was member for Newtown-Camperdown, this time for the Free Trade Party.
Cotton died in Sydney in 1942.
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Political Party
Australian Labor Party