Stan Keon
| Stan Keon | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Yarra |
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In office 10 December 1949 – 10 December 1955 |
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| Preceded by | James Scullin |
| Succeeded by | Jim Cairns |
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| Born |
Horace Stanley Keon 2 July 1915 Melbourne, Victoria |
| Died | 22 January 1987 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party |
Labor (1949–55) Labor (A-C) (1955) |
Standish Michael "Stan" Keon (2 July 1915 – 22 January 1987) was an Australian politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in the Federal Parliament from 1949 to 1955, having served previously in the State Parliament of Victoria.
He was the third surviving son of Australian-born parents, Philip Tobyn Keon, a lorry driver, and his wife, Jane (née Scott). His Christian names were registered as Horace Stanley; Horace being the name of a brother who had died the previous year. He attended Roman Catholic schools in East Melbourne and Richmond, and later won a scholarship to attend Xavier College, but couldn't attend due to reduced family circumstances, which compelled him to start working at the age of 12.
Keon's November 1945 election to the electoral district of Richmond in the Victorian Parliament followed a bitter pre-selection contest between supporters of the political machine of John Wren on the one hand, and the "Catholic Social Studies Movement" of B.A. Santamaria on the other.
Keon won the House of Representatives seat of Yarra at the 1949 federal election, succeeding former Prime Minister James Scullin. Keon himself was widely seen as a future Prime Minister. In 1955, he and six other Victorian federal members were expelled from the Labor Party, as a result of the split in the party caused by the controversy surrounding the role of Industrial Groups within the ALP. In April 1955, the seven expelled Labor parliamentarians became founding members of the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), which was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. Keon became the deputy leader of the new party in federal parliament under Bob Joshua.
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