Frank Scully (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frank Scully (politician)

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1920

Place of Birth: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 12-Aug-2015

Profession: politician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Frank Scully (politician)

  • Francis Raymond Scully (27 January 1920 – 12 August 2015), Australian politician, from 1949 was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Richmond representing the Labor Party to March 1955.
  • He was Assistant Minister of Lands, Assistant Minister of Electrical Undertakings in the third Cain government from 1952–1955.
  • He was a member of the Catholic Social Studies Movement ("The Movement") in Victoria, and was expelled from the ministry and the ALP as part of the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
  • He then was a member of the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) (and then the Democratic Labor Party) from 1955 to 1958.
  • Scully was the only member of the DLP in the lower house of the Victorian parliament during these three years.Scully was a railway worker, and was active in the Australian Railways Union Industrial Group.
  • Scully was defeated at the 1958 elections and subsequently owned a news-agency in Sandringham, Victoria.
  • He died in 2015 at the age of 95.

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