John Mullan
Australian public servant, union organizer and politician

John Mullan

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Australian public servant, union organizer and politician
A.K.A.
John Mullan (Australian politician), John Mullan (Queensland politician), John Mullan (politician)
Gender:
Male
Places:
Australia
Is:
PoliticianCivil servantTrade unionistActivistClerkRailway worker
Work field:
ActivismPolitics
Birth:
8 September 1871(Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, Great Britain)
Death:
1 October 1941(Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
Star sign:
Virgo
Politics:
Australian Labor Party
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Introduction

John Mullan (8 September 1871 – 1 October 1941) was an Irish-born Australian politician.

Early life

Born in Dublin, where he was educated, he migrated to Australia in 1889, becoming a clerk and railway worker. He was an organiser of the Charters Towers Miners' Union and the Australian Workers' Union.

Politics

In 1908 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for Charters Towers, where he remained until 1912. In 1913 he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Queensland. He remained in the Senate until his defeat in 1917, after which he returned to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Flinders in 1918. He served as Attorney-General from 1920 to 1929. In 1932, he changed seats, moving to Carpentaria, and resumed his position as Attorney-General, which he retained until 1940.

Later life

Mullan died in 1941 and was accorded a State funeral which took place from St Stephen's Cathedral to the Toowong Cemetery.