Jack Mutton

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}

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

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Jack Mutton

| honorific-suffix =

| image =

| office = Member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Coburg

| term_start = 29 April 1967

| term_end = 1979

| predecessor = Charlie Mutton

| successor = Peter Gavin

| office1 = Councillor of the City of Broadmeadows for Campbellfield Riding

| term_start1 = 1954

| term_end1 = 1970

| office3 = Mayor of City of Broadmeadows

| term_start3 = 1966

| term_end3 = 1967

| term_start4 = 1957

| term_end4 = 1958

| birth_name = John Patrick Mutton

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1915|3|9}}

| birth_place = Fawkner, Victoria, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2006|6|20|1915|3|9}}

| death_place = Epping, Victoria, Australia

| spouse =

| party = Independent

| otherparty = Labor (1934–unknown, then unknown until 1966)
Progressive Labor (1950–1955)

| father = Charlie Mutton

| mother = Annie Maria Peachey

}}

John Patrick Mutton (9 March 1915 – 20 June 2006) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Fawkner, the son of Charlie Mutton and Annie Maria Peachey. He attended the local state school and became a panel beater, joining both the Labor Party and the Vehicle Builders' Union in 1934. On 17 January 1938 he married Eileen Fitzpatrick, with whom he had two sons. From 1940 he was a member of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, and he owned and ran a panel-beating business.

In 1954, Mutton followed his father and was elected as a Progressive Labor councillor in the Broadmeadows City Council.{{cite web |title=Defeat of 2 mayors |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23435669 |publisher=The Argus |date=30 August 1954}}

He served in the Council until 1970, with two terms as mayor from 1957 to 1958 and from 1966 to 1967. In 1966, he left the Labor Party, and the following year he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the independent member for Coburg. He generally supported Labor in the Assembly, and he was defeated in 1979. Mutton died in 2006 in Epping.{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1347|title=Mutton, John Patrick|publisher = Parliament of Victoria|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823093651/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1347|archive-date=23 August 2006|url-status=dead}}