He was the acting Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 3 months in 1962.
He was the son of a blacksmith, was educated to elementary level at state schools.
From the age of 14 he worked as a linesman for the New South Wales Government Railways and was an official in the Electrical Trades Union until 1941.
The sitting Labor member Billy Davies successfully contested the new seat of Wollongong-Kembla at that election.
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