Frank Condon (politician)

Francis Joseph "Frank" Condon, CMG (3 December 1884 – 15 July 1961) was a trade unionist and Labor politician in South Australia.

During the First World War he served on the Prices Regulation Commission, work for which he received much praise.

Condon was elected to the seat of Port Adelaide in the House of Assembly in 1924 after defeating incumbent John Stanley Verran for Labor preselection.

[6] He was defeated by independent Protestant Labor Party candidate Thomas Thompson at the 1927 election.

He served on the public Works Standing Committee, which oversaw the construction Morgan-Whyalla pipeline, Mount Bold Reservoir, Anzac Highway, Birkenhead Bridge, Port Adelaide and Glenelg sewage treatment works, the operating theatre complex at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Uley-Wanilla Basin scheme to supply water to Port Lincoln, and Adelaide Boys' High School on West Terrace.