Pat Hanlon

Patrick Joseph "Pat" Hanlon (19 March 1930 – 30 October 2014) was an Australian politician.

He was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1974, representing the electorates of Ithaca (1956-1960) and Baroona (1960-1974).

After leaving university, he worked as a clerk accountant at the Olympic Tyre and Rubber Company from 1951 until his election to parliament in 1956, at the age of 26.

[2] In July 1956, the Labor member for his father's old seat of Ithaca, Leonard Eastment, died in office, necessitating a by-election.

[2] Having been elected the year before the 1957 Queensland Labor split, Hanlon was seen as being aligned with the party's industrial wing, rather than the more conservative Cabinet under Vince Gair.