What is Edmund Barton?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Edmund Barton | image = Edmund Barton.PNG | order = 1st [[Prime Minister of Australia]] | term_start = 1 January 1901 | term_end = 24 September 1903 | predecessor = None | successor = [[Alfred Deakin]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1849|1|18}} | birth_place = [[Glebe]], [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1920|1|7|1849|1|18}} | death_place = [[Medlow Bath]], New South Wales | party = [[Protectionist Party|Protectionist]] | constituency = [[Division of Hunter|Hunter]] (New South Wales) }} '''Sir Edmund Barton''' (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920) was the first [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] of [[Australia]]. He was born in the suburb of [[Glebe, New South Wales|Glebe]] in 1849 and died from heart failure in the [[Blue Mountains (New South Wales)|Blue Mountains]] in 1920. He was elected to the first [[Australian parliament]] in 1901 as the member for [[Division of Hunter|Hunter]]. He had a big part in making Australia a nation. His government passed [[law]]s stopping non-white people from coming to Australia and allowing women to [[vote]] in [[election]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pageName=inoffice&pmId=2#2|publisher=primeministers.naa.gov.au|title=Biography|accessdate=2008-06-18|archive-date=2008-07-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720123614/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=2&pageName=inoffice#2|url-status=dead}}</ref> After he was Prime Minister he became a judge of the [[High Court of Australia|High Court]]. ==Political career== Barton was chosen as the [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1883. He served as the speaker until 1887. In 1891, he was a member of the committee writing the [[Constitution of Australia]]. In 1900, he led a group of Australians to [[London]] to present the country's first Constitution to the British Parliament. Bart