John Martin (Australian politician)
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John Bertie Martin (16 October 1890 – 14 March 1964) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Waverley to engineer John Martin and Maria Theresa McArdle. He was a telephonist in the Postmaster-General's Department from 1904 to 1912, and in 1910 married Elizabeth Louise Smith, with whom she had two children. Active in the Federated Clerks' Union , he was its secretary and president from 1916 to 1928, and from 1930 to 1939 was organising secretary of the Labor Party. From 1931 to 1946 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. When he died at Camperdown in 1964, Martin was the state secretary of the Australian Funeral Directors' Association.[1]
References
- ^ "Mr John Bertie Martin (1890-1964)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
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