Jack Cremean
Jack Cremean | |
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Member of the Australian Parliament for Hoddle |
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In office 10 December 1949 – 10 December 1955 |
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Preceded by | New seat |
Succeeded by | Division abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | John Lawrence Cremean 26 January 1907 Melbourne, Victoria |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Labor (1949–55) Labor (A-C) (1955) |
Relations | Bert Cremean (brother) |
Occupation | Clerk |
John Lawrence "Jack" Cremean (26 January 1907 – 11 August 1982) was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a clerk. He was secretary to federal Labor minister Arthur Calwell from 1942–45, secretary of the Fire Brigades Employees Union 1945-48, and also sat on Richmond City Council. In 1945, Cremean's brother Bert Cremean died after surgery, and Jack was elected as a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Clifton Hill in the resulting by-election, where he remained until 1949. In that year, he transferred to federal politics, winning the new seat of Hoddle in the Australian House of Representatives. In 1955, Cremean was one of seven MPs who left the ALP and formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), the precursor to the Democratic Labor Party. Cremean's seat of Hoddle was abolished for the 1955 election, so he contested its successor, Scullin, as an Anti-Communist, but was defeated by the Labor candidate, Ted Peters, the member for Burke. Cremean died in 1982.[1]
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Victorian Legislative Assembly | ||
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Preceded by | Member for Clifton Hill 1945–1949 |
Succeeded by Joseph O'Carrell |
Parliament of Australia | ||
Preceded by
New seat
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Member for Hoddle 1949–1955 |
Succeeded by Seat abolished |
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