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Charles Mutton

1890 – 1989

(1890-1989) ironworker, poultry farmer and politician

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About Charles Mutton

Lived 1890 – 1989 (aged 98–99). Charles Mutton was a politician.

Charles Mutton (14 September 1890 – 13 May 1989) was an Australian politician.

He was born in North Melbourne to tobacco worker Charles Mutton and Mary Ann Moloney. He attended Catholic schools and from 1903 to 1910 worked for Excelsior Barbed Wire and Nail Works. In 1911 he became an ironworker, and in August 1914 he married Annie Maria Peachey, with whom he had four children. In 1908 he had joined the Labor Party, and in 1917 he became founding president of the Fawkner branch. In 1930 he inherited his father's poultry farm, and also became president of the Iron Founders' Union. He was a Broadmeadows Shire councillor from 1925 to 1953, serving twice as president (1934–;35, 1947–48).

In 1940 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in a by-election for the seat of Coburg; for running as an Independent Labor candidate, he was expelled from the Labor Party. He and another expelled Labor federal politician Doris Blackburn founded the Blackburn-Mutton Labor Party (BMLP) in 1947, which then became the Progressive Labor Party (Victoria) in 1950. In June 1956 he was re-admitted to the party, and he served until his retirement in 1967, when he was succeeded by his son Jack. Mutton died in Melbourne in 1989.

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1989
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Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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Who was Charles Mutton?

(1890-1989) ironworker, poultry farmer and politician

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Charles Mutton was born on 14 September 1890.

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Charles Mutton died in 1989.

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Charles Mutton was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: Charles Mutton

· Wikidata: Q21536364

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