John Fortunatus Higgins (31 October 1884 – 28 July 1936) was an Australian politician. He was born in Glenorchy to orchardist Matthew Higgins and Anne Barry. He attended school at

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and became a journalist. On 2 February 1913 he married Marion Honoria Harlow; the following year he married Felicitas Laverty (known as Mina) on 24 December 1914. He and Mina had a daughter, Patricia Margaret Higgins in 1917. From 1921 to 1936 he was a

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member of the

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. He opposed Jack Lang and sat as Federal Labor in the 1930s. Higgins died at Rose Bay in 1936.

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1884 births 1936 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-journalist-stub