Jim Kenny, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian glassworker, trade union official and politician (1906-1967)
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Place of Birth: Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia
About Jim Kenny
- James Denis Kenny (27 November 1906 – 12 October 1967) was an Australian politician. He was born in Waterloo to transport worker James Kenny and Margaret Rolley.
- Educated locally, he became a hatter until around 1930, when he became a glassworker.
- He was a shop steward for the Glassworkers' Union and served as its state secretary from 1936 to 1947 and federal secretary from 1950 to 1967.
- In 1946 he was president of the Trades and Labor Council, and from 1951 to 1967 he served on the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
- From 1948 to 1967 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
- Kenny died at Maroubra in 1967.
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