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John Patrick Cochran (8 March 1864 – 2 December 1926) was an Australian politician. He was born in Lower Manning to mariner Thomas Cochran and Ellen Lennon. He worked as a labourer and a secretary, and was an official of the United Labourers' Union, a delegate to the Labor Council of New South Wales, and a member of the ULU's executive committee from 1894 to 1910, as secretary from 1906. He was also a member of the
Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms the f ...
's central executive, serving in 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. In 1910 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...
as the member for
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. He served as a backbencher until his retirement in 1920, becoming a clerk in the Department of Labour and Industry. He ran once more for office, contesting North Shore for Labor in 1922. Cochran, an unmarried Catholic, died in 1926 in
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  {{DEFAULTSORT:Cochran, John 1864 births 1926 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Colony of New South Wales people