Jack_Culpin

Jack Culpin

Jack Culpin

Australian politician (1927–2014)

John Albert "Jack" Culpin (4 October 1927 – 2 September 2014) was an Australian politician.

Quick Facts Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Glenroy, Preceded by ...

Born in Collingwood to postal officer Albert Culpin and his wife Leura, he worked as an electrical fitter and was a shop steward with the Electrical Trades Union for twenty years. On 23 June 1951 he married June Marie Ballard (Deceased), with whom he had four sons Gary, Trevor, Rodney (Deceased) & Dale. In 1961 he was elected to Broadmeadows City Council, serving until 1978; he was mayor from 1965 to 1966. In 1976 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Glenroy, shifting to Broadmeadows in 1985. He resigned from the Labor Party in 1988 and was defeated as an independent candidate.[1]

Jack Culpin died in Melbourne on 2 September 2014.

References

  1. [1]
    "Culpin, John Albert". Parliament of Victoria. 1985. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
Stub icon

This article about an Australian Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Jack_Culpin, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.