John Osborne (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About John Osborne (Australian politician)
- John Percy Osborne (1 December 1878 – 19 February 1961) was an Australian politician. He was born in Deniliquin to mining engineer Alfred John Osborne and schoolteacher Jane McCoy.
- He left school at fourteen to work at a mine smelters at Captains Flat, before moving to Sydney in 1902 to work as a shop assistant.
- He was a founding member of the Shop Assistants' Union, serving as secretary from 1902 to 1907 and later as president.
- In 1906, he married Julia Rosenfeld, with whom he had three children.
- In 1910 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Paddington, serving until the Holman government appointed him to the Meat Board in 1919.
- Osborne died at Roseville in 1961.
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