John Healy (Australian politician)
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|name = John Healy
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| constituency_AM1 = Warwick
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 11 May 1935
| term_end1 = 3 May 1947
| predecessor1 = George Barnes
| successor1 = Otto Madsen
| alongside1 =
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|3|19|df=y}}
|birth_place = Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
|death_date = {{death date and age|1970|7|18|1894|3|19|df=y}}
|death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
|restingplace = South Brisbane Cemetery
|birthname = John Joseph O'Connor Healy
|nationality = Australian
|party = Labor
|otherparty =
|spouse = Florence May Ahern (m.1921)
|known_for =
| occupation = Clerk
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John Joseph O'Connor Healy (19 March 1894 – 18 July 1970) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1586878514|accessdate=25 April 2016}}
Biography
Healy was born in Maryborough, Queensland, the son of John Edward James Healy and his wife Margaret (née O'Connor). He was educated at St Mary's Convent, Yuleba State School, Assumption College in Warwick and Nudgee College in Brisbane. On leaving school he took up work as a clerk with the Queensland Railways in Warwick from 1908 until 1935.
After politics he was a clerk in the Queensland Public Service before being the Private Secretary from 1950–1956 to Paul Hilton, the Minister for Works in the Queensland Government. In 1956 he was once again working as a clerk, this time in the Valuer-General's department. He retired in 1961.
On 5 October 1921, Healy married Florence May Ahern and together had two sons and a daughter. He died in Brisbane in July 1970 and was buried in the South Brisbane Cemetery.[https://graves.brisbane.qld.gov.au/ Deceased Search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308144748/https://graves.brisbane.qld.gov.au/ |date=8 March 2019 }} — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
Public life
After unsuccessfully standing for the seat of Warwick at the 1932 Queensland state elections,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97847387 |title=HOW QUEENSLAND SEATS WERE WON |newspaper=Sunday Mail |issue=624 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=12 May 1935 |accessdate=25 April 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} Healy, a member of the Labor Party, stood again three years later and this time was victorious.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97868120 |title=HOW THE VOTE WENT IN ALL ELECTORATES |newspaper=Sunday Mail |issue=415 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=3 April 1938 |accessdate=25 April 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} He went on to represent the electorate of Warwick for the next 12 years, only to lose to Otto Madsen of the Country Party in 1947.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49729516 |title=LATEST POLL FIGURES |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=4189 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=1 May 1950 |accessdate=25 April 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Healy was recommended by the Queensland Central Executive of the Labor Party to contest the seat of Roma at the 1950 Queensland state elections, but the Labour in Politics Convention opted to endorse opponent J. D. Kane instead.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article124641618 |title=Convention Upsets Recommendation |newspaper=Queensland Times |issue=19,703 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=24 February 1950 |accessdate=7 August 2016 |page=1 (DAILY) |via=National Library of Australia}}
References
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Category:Burials at South Brisbane Cemetery
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland