Henry Curran (Australian politician)

{{short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use Australian English|date=March 2016}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix =

|name = Henry Curran

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|office = Member of the Legislative Assembly
of Western Australia

|constituency = South Fremantle

|term_start = 12 March 1960

|term_end = 31 March 1962

|predecessor = Dick Lawrence

|successor = None {{Small|(seat abolished)}}

|constituency2 = Cockburn

|term_start2 = 31 March 1962

|term_end2 = 23 March 1968

|predecessor2 = None {{Small|(new seat)}}

|successor2 = Don Taylor

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|1|25|df=y}}

|birth_place = Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|10|21|1912|1|25|df=y}}

|death_place = Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

|party = Labor

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Henry Curran (25 January 1912 – 21 October 1975) was an Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1960 to 1968.

Curran was born in Stirling, Scotland, to Rosina (née McKenna) and Patrick Curran. He and his parents emigrated to Australia when he was a child. After leaving school, Curran worked for various companies in the Fremantle area, and became involved in the union movement. He also served in the Australian Army during World War II, as a transport driver.[http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/30BD8D472964C347482577E50028A59D?OpenDocument Henry Curran] – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2016. Curran entered parliament at the 1960 by-election for the seat of South Fremantle, which had been caused by the death of Dick Lawrence. His seat was abolished at the 1962 state election, and he successfully transferred to the new seat of Cockburn.{{cite book|last=Black|first=David|authorlink=David Black (historian)|last2=Prescott|first2=Valerie|title=Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996|year=1997|publisher=Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission|location=Perth, [W.A.]|isbn=0730984095}} In 1963, Curran was involved in a traffic accident that resulted in the amputation of a leg. He was re-elected unopposed at the 1965 election, and retired at the 1968 election. Curran died in Perth in 1975, aged 63. He had married Alma Bindley in 1936, with whom he had two children.