John Patrick Mutton (9 March 1915 – 20 June 2006) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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, the son of

Charlie Mutton Charles Mutton (14 September 1890 – 13 May 1989) was an Australian politician. He was born in North Melbourne to tobacco worker Charles Mutton and Mary Ann Moloney. He attended Catholic schools and from 1903 to 1910 worked for Excelsior Ba ...

and Annie Maria Peachey. He attended the local state school and became a

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, joining both the Labor Party and the Vehicle Builders' Union in 1934. On 17 January 1938 he married Eileen Fitzpatrick, with whom he had two sons. From 1940 he was a member of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, and he owned and ran a panel-beating business. From 1954 to 1970 he served on Broadmeadows City Council, with two terms as mayor from 1957 to 1958 and from 1966 to 1967. In 1966 he left the Labor Party, and the following year he was elected to the

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as the

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member for

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. He generally supported Labor in the Assembly, and he was defeated in 1979. Mutton died in 2006 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mutton, Jack 1915 births 2006 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians