Peter Ffrench Loughlin (12 December 1881 – 11 July 1960) was an Australian politician.

Early life

He was born in Braidwood to police constable John Loughlin and Sarah Jane, ''née'' Ffrench. He was educated at Girrinderra and

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, becoming a schoolteacher and teaching at various public schools from 1900 to 1917. He married Louisa Davis at

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on 16 April 1906, with whom he had seven children.

Parliamentary career

A member of the Labor Party, he was elected to the

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in 1917 as the member for Burrangong, moving to

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with the introduction of

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in 1920. He was Secretary for Lands and

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from 1920 to 1922 and from 1925 to 1926, and deputy leader of the Labor Party from 1923 to 1926 (and deputy premier from 1925–26), when he resigned from the party. He ran as an independent candidate for Young at the 1930 election, during which time he was working as a proofreader for the ''Goulburn Evening Post'', and at the 1932 election he ran for

as a

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candidate, winning election. He was defeated in 1935.

Subsequent life and death

After his defeat Loughlin farmed in the Carcoar and

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districts before retiring to Pennant Hills in the 1950s. Loughlin died at Hornsby on .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Loughlin, Peter 1881 births 1960 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of New South Wales United Australia Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian educators Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians