Local and Federal Politics
Moving to a Glen Innes practice in 1893, Abbott married Elizabeth Matilda Ross, née King, at Tamworth on 2 September 1901, and continued to be an active sportsman. He was involved in a wide variety of local organisations, including the Northern Border Cricket Association and Glen Innes Rifle Club, as well as being a keen fisherman and racehorse breeder. He served on Glen Innes Municipal Council (1898-1904, 1906-1914) and was mayor from 1910-1913, as well as being president of the hospital board. In 1913, backed by the Farmers and Settlers' Association, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as a member of the Commonwealth Liberal Party for the seat of New England, which he represented until 1919 (during which time the party had morphed into the Nationalist Party).
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