Joseph Patrick O’Carroll (21 March 1891 – 9 June 1965) was an Australian politician who was a Member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne.
The presiding ...
for the
Electoral district of Clifton Hill
Electoral district of Clifton Hill was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It centred on the north-eastern Melbourne
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representing the
Labor Party from 1949–1955 and the
Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)
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(
Democratic Labor Party) from March–April 1955.
He also was an
Australian rules football
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er who played with
Melbourne
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in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
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1891 births
1965 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Democratic Labor Party (historical) members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Melbourne Football Club players
People educated at Parade College
Australian sportsperson-politicians
20th-century Australian politicians
Australian rules footballers from Queensland
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