Jack Hall (21 March 1910 – 5 May 1970) was an Australian trade unionist and politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of

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from 1956 to 1970, representing the seat of Albany. Hall was born in Mount Malcolm, a short-lived settlement in the

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. He went to school in Albany, and was subsequently employed by Albany Woollen Mills (a textile firm). He eventually became president of the Albany branch of the Textile Workers' Union, serving for seven years .Jack Hall
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2016. Hall entered parliament at the 1956 state election. He defeated Leonard Hill, the sitting Country Party member, by just 18 votes on the

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count. At the 1959 election, Hall won an absolute majority on

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, a feat he repeated at three subsequent elections (in

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, and

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). Suffering from ill health, he resigned from parliament in April 1970, and died in

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less than a month later. He had married Irene Pearl Sutherland in 1933, with whom he had four children.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Jack 1910 births 1970 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly People from Goldfields-Esperance Trade unionists from Western Australia