Jack Mortimer

Jack Mortimer
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Grey
In office
1 June 1963 – 26 November 1966
Preceded byEdgar Russell
Succeeded byDon Jessop
Personal details
Born(1912-10-30)30 October 1912
Magill, South Australia
Died8 February 1973(1973-02-08) (aged 60)
Port Hedland, Western Australia
PartyAustralian Labor Party
SpouseMelva Winfield Bähr
Children2
OccupationWaterside worker

Jack Mortimer (30 October 1912 – 8 February 1973) was an Australian politician. He received a primary education before becoming a farmer in South Australia. He served in the military from 1942 to 1946 and returned as a waterside worker in Port Lincoln where he was a branch secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation. In 1963, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Grey. He held the seat until his defeat in 1966, after which he became a businessman in Port Lincoln. Mortimer died by drowning at Port Hedland in 1973.

Personal life

Mortimer married Melva Bähr, of Ceduna, in 1939. They had a daughter and a son, and farmed at Karkoo.

References

  1. ↑ "Mortimer, Jack". WW2 Nominal Roll. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Australian Labor Party, Federal Personnel 1901–1975 (PDF). National Centre for Biography.
  3. ↑ Whitlam, Gough. "Deaths of Former Member – Mr T. P. Burke, Mr J. Mortimer, Hon. W. J. F Riordan and Hon. H. V. C. Thorby". Historic Hansard. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Carr, Adam (2008). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2008.