Harry Ryan (politician)

Henry Ryan
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook
In office 22 May 1915 – 11 May 1929
Preceded by	Henry Douglas
Succeeded by	James Kenny
Personal details
Born	Henry Joseph Ryan 1873 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Died	17 January 1943 (aged 70) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resting place	Toowong Cemetery
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Spouse(s)	Kate Butler (m.1898)
Occupation	Businessman
Religion	Roman Catholic

Henry Joseph Ryan (1873 - 17 January 1943) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Ryan was born at Ballarat, Victoria, the son of Thomas Ryan and his wife Margaret (née O'Brien). He was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Ballarat and on arrival in North Queensland took up mining. After his political career he was a businessman in Brisbane.

On the 4th May 1898 he married Kate Butler in Gympie and together had one son. Ryan died in Brisbane in January 1943 and was buried in the Toowong Cemetery.

Ryan was heavily involved in the trade union movement and was associated with Ted Theodore amongst others in the Australian Workers' Association of Queensland. He was a delegate at the 1913 Rockhampton conference when the AWA was absorbed into the Australian Workers' Union.

He entered state politics at the 1915 Queensland state election when he won the seat of Cook for the Australian Labor Party. Ryan defeated the sitting member for Cook, Henry Douglas of the Queensland Liberal Party, after previously standing unsuccessfully against him at the 1912 state election.

Ryan represented Cook for fourteen years before being defeated by James Kenny of the Country and Progressive National Party in 1929.

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