Lionel William "Mick" Ryan (1884 – 6 February 1970) was an Australian politician. He was born in Bathurst to Thomas and Abigail Ryan. He was a rural worker who was active in the

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. From 1925 to 1943 he was a

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member of the

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. He opposed Jack Lang and sat as Federal Labor in the 1930s; he also took an active organisational role in Federal Labor in opposition to

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in federal and state elections. Ryan died in

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in 1970.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ryan, Mick 1884 births 1970 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians