John Stanislaus Hanlon
John Stanislaus Hanlon (16 November 1883 – 13 September 1949) was an Australian journalist and Labor politician in Queensland.
He was born in Creswick, Victoria, and studied there and at St Patrick’s College, Ballarat. He worked as a journalist in Ballarat, then in Perth, where he started the Western Australian branch of the Australian Journalists’ Association. By 1915 he was in Brisbane with The Worker newspaper.
In 1908 he married Mary Cotter; they had two children.
Queensland’s Legislative Council was dominated by conservatives. In 1920 Premier Ted Theodore appointed 14 new Labor members, including Hanlon, to the Council. He served from 19 February 1920 until the Council was abolished on 23 March 1922. He continued with The Worker and later became its editor. In 1921 he joined the University of Queensland senate and served there until 1943.
In 1943 he moved to Sydney to edit The Australian Worker. In 1945 he joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission, staying there until his death in 1949 from pneumonia.
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