John Albert "Bert" Turner (26 March 1888 – 5 April 1973) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Turner was born in

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, the son of William Riggen Turner and his wife Lucy (née Brinkley). He was educated at

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and after finishing his education joined the fire brigade in 1906. He married Annie Hunter Horsburgh on 9 January 1915 (died 1969)Family history research
— Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 26 March 2016. and they had two daughters. He died in April 1973 and willed his body to the School of Anatomy at Queensland University for medical research and was later cremated.

Public career

Turner was a founder and the first secretary of the Queensland Fire Brigade Union before becoming an organiser with the Motor Drivers and Motor Mechanics Union. He then was an organiser with the Queensland Storemen and Packers Union from 1924 to 1941. He was a (ALP) founder and president of the Labor Ashgrove Jubilee Branch in 1927. He won the seat of Kelvin Grove at the

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s and held it till his defeat by the Liberal Party's Doug Tooth in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, John Albert Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1888 births 1973 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 20th-century Australian politicians