Ken Vaughan | |
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Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Nudgee | |
In office 12 November 1977 –15 July 1995 | |
Preceded by | Jack Melloy |
Succeeded by | Neil Roberts |
Personal details | |
Born | Kenneth Hamilton Vaughan 29 October 1934 Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
Died | 22 June 2011 76) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | (aged
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | Labor |
Spouse(s) | Lesley Cowdroy (m.1959) |
Occupation | Electrician, Trade union assistant secretary |
Kenneth Hamilton Vaughan (29 October 1934 – 22 June 2011) was an Australian politician.
Vaughan's father Clifford Llewelyn Vaughan, a butcher, died from blood poisoning in 1939 and he was raised by his mother, Ruby Sarah, in Richmond, attending school in Charters Towers. He was sent to Brisbane to live with his aunt in 1950 to begin work as a clerk for Queensland Railways. He concluded his apprenticeship in 1955, but was conscripted for national service in August 1956, serving as an army sergeant at Wacol. In 1958 he was elected shop steward for the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), and in 1959 married Lesley Cowdroy, in which year he also joined the Labor Party. [1]
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