Thomas Brennan (Victorian state politician)

Thomas William Brennan (7 April 1900 – 29 October 1966) was an Australian politician.

Born in Surrey Hills to labourer Patrick William Brennan and Kate Kealy, he attended school in Carlton before studying law part-time at the University of Melbourne. He became a political journalist, having joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) around 1925. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1935, and lectured on English and public speaking at the Labor College from 1941 to 1956. From 1945 to 1955 he was on the state executive of the ALP, serving as president from 1950 to 1951 and as a Victorian MLC for Monash Province from 1952, but in 1955 he was part of the split that formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), which became the Democratic Labor Party (DLP). He lost his state seat in 1958 and continued to contest elections for the DLP until his death.[1]

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