Lionel William "Mick" Ryan (1884 – 6 February 1970) was an Australian politician. He was born in Bathurst to Thomas and Abigail Ryan. He was a rural worker who was active in the

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. From 1925 to 1943 he was a Labor member of the

New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...

. He opposed Jack Lang and sat as Federal Labor in the 1930s; he also took an active organisational role in Federal Labor in opposition to Lang Labor in federal and state elections. Ryan died in

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in 1970.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ryan, Mick 1884 births 1970 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians