Charles Kemp (politician)

Charles Kemp (2 June 1813 – 25 August 1864) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in London to carpenter Simon Kemp and Mary Ann Cox. He and his family migrated to Port Stephens; he moved to Sydney in 1831 and after a period in a carpenters' shop was the colony's first parliamentary reporter. In 1838 he married Stella Christie; they adopted one daughter. Kemp worked as an underwriter and also went into real estate and the stock market. From 1855 to 1856 he was an inaugural railway commissioner, the government having assumed control of the Sydney and Hunter River Railway Companies, which he had founded. In 1860 he was elected in a by-election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Liverpool Plains, but he was defeated at the general election later that year. From 1860 he was Deputy Chairman of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. In 1861 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, but he died in 1864 at Sydney.^[1]

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