Phillip Patrick Connell (2 November 1900 – 6 June 1980) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Prahran
Prahran (), also pronounced colloquially as Pran, is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City ...
to pickle manufacturer James Joseph Connell and Florence Evans. He attended a Catholic school in
Oakleigh and became a pastry cook and grocer near
Warburton. He married Susanna Louisa Bennett around 1924; they had five children. From around 1932 he was a life insurance agent. In 1952 he was elected to the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
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as the
Labor
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member for
Evelyn
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. He was defeated in 1958. Around that time he married his second wife, Elsie Eveline Warren. From the 1970s he lived in
Queensland
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, and around 1970 he married Marjorie Jane Bennett. Connell died at
Healesville
Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 52 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Healesville recorded a population of 7,589 in the 2021 census.
He ...
in 1980.
References
1900 births
1980 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
20th-century Australian politicians
Politicians from Melbourne
People from Prahran, Victoria
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