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 states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ...

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 Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of ...

representing the Labor Party from 1949–1955 and the

Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) was an Australian political party. The party came into existence following the 1955 ALP split as the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), and was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. In 1962, the Qu ...

( Democratic Labor Party) from March–April 1955. He also was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played with

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in the

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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 (Australia, 1955) politicians members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Melbourne Football Club players People educated at Parade College Australian sportsperson-politicians 20th-century Australian politicians Australian rules footballers from Queensland 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1891-stub