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About Leo Fennessy
- Leo Michael Fennessy (7 June 1907 – 14 February 1992) was an Australian politician. Fennessy was born at Warrnambool to police superintendent Pierce Fennessy and Mary Kenafick.
- He attended St Thomas' Christian Brothers College at Clifton Hill and became a boot trader in 1922.
- He also farmed at Trayning, Western Australia, with his brother, until the Great Depression forced them to sell; he mined for gold at Wiluna until 1939, when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, serving in the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre from 1942 to 1944.
- He married Celestine Vosti on 17 February 1940, with whom he had a daughter.
- On his return in 1944 he was a public servant with the Navy Department until 1950, when he became an industrial officer with the Victorian Federated Clerks' Union.
- Fennessy increased his activity in the union movement, becoming a Trades Hall Council delegate (1950–54) and Secretary of the ACTU Commonwealth Public Service Steering Committee (1952–55).
- In 1955 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Brunswick East, serving as a backbencher until 1970.
- After leaving parliament he was Chairman of the Victorian Environment Protection Council (1970–78) and a member of the Develop Victoria Council (1972–78).
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