Jack Power

John Maurice Power (15 December 1883 – 13 January 1925) was an Australian trade unionist and politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy in 1924, after previously serving as mayor of Paddington (1917–1918), ALP state president (1921–1923), and on the New South Wales Legislative Council (1921–1924). However, he died two months after his appointment at the age of 41, without taking his seat in parliament.

Early life Power was born on 15 December 1883 in South Hay, New South Wales. He was the fifth child of Irish immigrant parents Maria (née Toohey) and John Maurice Power. The family relocated to Sydney during his childhood. Power held a variety of occupations before embarking on a full-time political career. He worked variously as a drayman, farmhand, pastrycook, taxi driver and tobacconist. He was president of the Pastrycooks' Union and was commissioned as a justice of the peace in 1913.

On 30 August 1921, Power was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council and served until 20 November 1924.

Personal life Power married Alice May Duggan on 21 January 1911, with whom he had one son. He was widowed in 1913 and remarried on 4 November 1918 to Stella Horrigan, with whom he had a second son.