John Carr (Australian politician, born 1819)

John Carr (21 September 1819 – 10 February 1913) was a politician in colonial South Australia.

He purchased 200 acres (81 ha) at Dashwood's Gully, where he grew wheat and ran dairy cattle for 20 years, then sold up to live at Blackwood.

They sold up later at a small profit, and Carr moved to Port Adelaide, where he served on the boards of several companies, and local chairman of the Corporation of South Australian Copper Mines.

[3] He was a candidate for one of the two Noarlunga seats in the South Australian House of Assembly in 1865, and came second (John Colton 348, John Carr 303, William Trimmer 261) but due to a technicality, votes cast at Happy Valley could not be included, putting Carr in third place.

[1] He was Commissioner of Public Works in the John Hart Ministry from May 1870 to November 1871; and from the latter date till January 1872 in the Government of Arthur Blyth.