Crawford Vaughan

Crawford Vaughan
Vaughan in 1910
27th Premier of South Australia
In office 3 April 1915 – 14 July 1917
Monarch	George V
Governor	Sir Henry Galway
Preceded by	Archibald Peake
Succeeded by	Archibald Peake
Leader of the Opposition in South Australia
In office 14 July 1917 – 1917
Preceded by	Archibald Peake
Succeeded by	Andrew Kirkpatrick
In office 26 July 1913 – 3 April 1915
Preceded by	John Verran
Succeeded by	Archibald Peake
Leader of the United Labor Party
In office 26 July 1913 – 12 February 1917
Preceded by	John Verran
Succeeded by	Andrew Kirkpatrick
Personal details
Born	(1874-07-14)14 July 1874 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died	15 December 1947(1947-12-15) (aged 73) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Political party	United Labor Party (1905–17) National Labor (1917–18) Independent (1918)

Crawford Vaughan (14 July 1874 – 15 December 1947) was an Australian politician, and the Premier of South Australia from 1915 to 1917.^[1] He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1905 to 1918, representing Torrens (1905–1915) and Sturt (1915–1918). Elected for the United Labor Party, he served as Treasurer in the Verran government, succeeded Verran as Labor leader in 1913, and was elected Premier after the Labor victory at the 1915 state election.^[2][3]

Vaughan's career was curtailed by the 1916–17 Labor split over conscription in World War I, as Vaughan and other supporters of conscription were expelled from the Labor Party in early 1917. Vaughan continued in office until July heading a minority government of the splinter National Party; however, his government was then ousted by the conservative Liberal Union opposition of Archibald Peake. The National Party went into coalition, serving under Peake as junior instead of senior partner, but Vaughan did not take a ministerial portfolio, spent most of his remaining term overseas, and was defeated at the 1918 election after launching a last-minute campaign as an independent candidate.