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John Victor Ryan (1890–1974)

John Victor Ryan

John Victor Ryan (1890-1974) baker, trade union official, Labor activist and Australian Senator  Birth: 2 December 1890 at the Destitute Asylum, Adelaide, South Australia, son of native-born Rose Lattin (1869-1948). Later she married native-born John Joseph Ryan (1860-1922), a labourer and took his surname. Marriage: 17 March 1924 at Maughan Methodist, Church, Adelaide, to Edith Laura Grivelle. They had two daughters and four sons. Death: 13 October 1974 at his home in the Adelaide suburb of Black...

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