Alan Henry Scanlan (born 23 June 1931) is an Australian politician. He was born in Caulfield to commercial traveller Edward Daniel John Scanlan and Winifred Bernice Fowler. He attended

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and

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, and worked as a teacher in

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from 1958 to 1959. On 16 December 1961 he married fellow teacher Shirley Jane Pope, with whom he had one son. He had joined the

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in 1952 and been president of the Victorian Young Liberals from 1959 to 1961. In 1961 he was elected to the

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as the member for Oakleigh. He was Cabinet Secretary from 1970 to 1972, Assistant Minister for Education from 1972 to 1973,

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from 1973 to 1976 and Minister of Special Education from 1976 to 1979, when he was defeated. He subsequently moved to

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, where he served on Mulgrave Shire Council from 1982.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scanlan, Alan 1931 births Living people Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Ministers for health (Victoria)