Jens Jensen

Jens August Jensen (2 May 1865 – 16 November 1936) was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy. Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbit-hawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst; she died in 1894 leving him with a son and four daughters. He remarried Bertha Hopton in August 1896 and became a successful publican. In 19... more

Jens August Jensen (2 May 1865 – 16 November 1936) was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy. Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbit-hawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst; she died in 1894 leving him with a son and four daughters. He remarried Bertha Hopton in August 1896 and became a successful publican. In 1903 Jensen was elected as the member for George Town in the Tasmanian House of Assembly as an independent and was re-elected as a Labor candidate for George Town in 1906 and Wilmot 1909 and was Chief Secretary in a Labor government for eight days in October 1909. In February 1910 he resigned from the House of Assembly and won the seat of Bass in the House of Representatives at the April 1910 election. He served as an Assistant Minister and then in July 1915 he became the first Minister for the Navy in the Fisher and Hughes governments. When a... less