Denis Lovegrove, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Denis Lovegrove

Australian trade unionist, party official and politician

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1904

Place of Birth: Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1979

Profession: politician, trade unionist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Denis Lovegrove

  • Denis ('Dinny') Lovegrove (25 September 1904 – 25 January 1979) was an Australian politician. Born in Carlton (then a thoroughly working-class suburb of Melbourne), Lovegrove left school early, and held a variety of jobs including those of brass foundry worker, shipping office clerk and plasterer.
  • In 1930 he joined the Communist Party of Australia, but he was expelled in 1933.
  • Subsequently, when he publicly criticised the party, he was administered a severe thrashing in an attack carried out by communist thugs.
  • He then joined the Labor Party and served on its state executive from 1938 to 1955 (holding the office of state president from 1943 to 1944).
  • In addition, he was federal president of the ALP from 1953 to 1954.
  • He was secretary of the Fibrous Plaster and Plaster Workers' Union (FPPWU) from 1935 to 1947, president of the Trades Hall Council in 1938, and a delegate to the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
  • Until 1954, he was associated with the hardline anti-communist Industrial Groups; but in that year he decisively broke with them, and remained loyal to the ALP and its leader John Cain (Premier 1952-55) after the 'groupers' were forced out.
  • He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1955 as the member for Carlton, transferring to Fitzroy three years later.
  • From 1955 to 1978 he was president of the FPPWU.
  • For part of that period (1958-67) he was simultaneously Deputy Leader of the Opposition, which during those years was led by Clive Stoneham.
  • He moved to the new seat of Sunshine in 1967, retired from the legislature in 1973, and died at East Melbourne in 1979.

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