Edmond Hogan
| Edmond John Hogan | |
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| 30th Premier of Victoria | |
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In office 20 May 1927 – 22 November 1928 |
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| Preceded by | John Allan |
| Succeeded by | William Murray McPherson |
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In office 12 December 1929 – 19 May 1932 |
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| Preceded by | William Murray McPherson |
| Succeeded by | Stanley Argyle |
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| Born | 12 December 1883 Wallace, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 23 August 1964 (aged 80) Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Molly Magdelene, née Conroy |
| Religion | Catholic |
Edmond John "Ned" Hogan (12 December 1883 – 23 August 1964), Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria, was born in Wallace, Victoria, where his Irish-born parents were small farmers. After attending a Roman Catholic primary school he became a farm worker and then a timber worker, and spent some time on the goldfields of Western Australia.
Hogan became active in trade union and Labor Party politics in Kalgoorlie. In 1912 he contracted typhoid and returned to Victoria to recuperate, and took up farming at Ballan.
In 1913 Hogan was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Warrenheip, a seat near Ballarat, which was renamed Warrenheip and Grenville in 1927. He held this seat for 30 years: although it was not a natural Labor seat, it was heavily Irish-Catholic, which helped Hogan, an active Catholic, retain it. In 1914 he was elected to the Labor Party's state executive and in 1922 he became State President. In 1924 he was Minister for Agriculture and Railways in the short-lived minority government of George Prendergast.
Hogan was a fine speaker and soon became a leading figure in a parliamentary party which was thin on talent. Victoria was Labor's weakest state and in the 1920s there seemed little chance it would ever win a state election. When Prendergast stepped down in 1926, Hogan was the obvious choice to succeed him. His main drawback was his close association with the Melbourne horse-racing, boxing and gambling identity John Wren, who was widely suspected of corruption. The Wren connection alienated many middle-class voters from Labor through the 1920s and 1930s.
Nevertheless, at the 1927 state election Hogan was able to capitalise on resentment against rural over-representation in the state Parliament and consequent domination by the Country Party. Labor won 28 seats to the Nationalists 15 and the Country Party's ten.
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