Phillip Hurley Sullivan (1858 – 4 December 1921) was an Australian politician. Sullivan was born in

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to master mariner Daniel Santry Sullivan and Margaret Hurley. He became a solicitor's clerk in 1877 and was admitted as a solicitor in 1882. Around 1895 he married Helen Scougall, with whom he would have seven children. In 1901 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for

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. He shifted seats to

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in 1904, and was defeated in 1907. Sullivan died in Manly in 1921.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan, Phillip 1858 births 1921 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Colony of New South Wales people