John Joseph O'Connor Healy (19 March 1894 – 18 July 1970) was a member of the

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in Australia.

Biography

Healy was born in Maryborough,

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, the son of John Edward James Healy and his wife Margaret (née O'Connor). He was educated at St Mary's Convent,

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State School, Assumption College in

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and

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. On leaving school he took up work as a

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with the

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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. From 1956 he was once again working as a clerk, this time 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

in July 1970 and was buried in the

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.Deceased Search
— Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 25 April 2016.

Public life

After unsuccessfully standing for the seat of

at the

1932 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 June 1932 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election was the first electoral test of the Country and Progressive National Party government led by A ...

s, Healy, a member of the Labor Party, stood again three years later and this time was victorious. He went on to represent the electorate of Warwick for the next 12 years, only to lose to

Otto Madsen Otto Ottosen Madsen (8 December 1904 – 3 August 1963) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Biography Madsen was born in Warwick, Queensland, the son of Mads Madsen and his wife Christine (née Ottosen), both of whom were born ...

of the Country Party in

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. Healy was recommended by the Queensland Central Executive of the Labor Party to contest the seat of

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at the

1950 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 April 1950 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its seventh continuous term in office since the 1932 election; it would be ...

s, but the Labour in Politics Convention opted to endorse opponent J. D. Kane instead.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Healy, John Joseph O'Connor Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1894 births 1970 deaths Burials in South Brisbane Cemetery Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 20th-century Australian politicians