Kevin Francis King (11 October 1922 – 28 January 1983) was an Australian politician. He was born in Yarram to farmer George Edward King and Myrtle Daphne Green. He held a variety of jobs as a young man, and during

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worked on the

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- Darwin road for the Commonwealth Construction Corps. He was also a motor mechanics instructor for the

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Army. From 1945 to 1948 he worked for a sports car company in

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, but he returned to

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in 1948 to work in a store. In 1951 he joined the Labor Party, and that year married Rosalie Szabo, with whom he had a son. He qualified as a woolclasser, working in Victoria and

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until 1961, when he became the manager of a Melbourne wool store. In 1979 he was elected to the

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as the Labor member for Springvale. He held the seat until his death at Prahran in 1983.

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1922 births 1983 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-Victoria-MP-stub