[1] Jock Nelson was educated at state schools in Darwin before becoming a jackeroo and goldminer, and later a bore contractor at Alice Springs.

In 1949, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Northern Territory, defeating the sitting independent, Adair Blain.

In 1963, he was re-elected unopposed, the last occasion when a member was returned to the House of Representatives in this fashion.

Nelson returned to pastoralism and served as the first Mayor of Alice Springs (1971 - 1973) before he stepped down[2] to become the Administrator of the Northern Territory (1973–1975) before his death in 1991.

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