Jack Cremean

Jack Cremean
Member of the Australian Parliament for Hoddle
In office 10 December 1949 – 10 December 1955
Preceded by	New division
Succeeded by	Division abolished
Personal details
Born	John Lawrence Cremean (1907-01-26)26 January 1907 Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Died	11 August 1982(1982-08-11) (aged 75) Kew, Victoria, Australia
Political party	Labor (1949–55) Labor (A-C) (1955)
Relations	Bert Cremean (brother)
Occupation	Clerk

John Lawrence "Jack" Cremean (26 January 1907 – 11 August 1982) was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a clerk. He was secretary to federal Labor minister Arthur Calwell from 1942–45, secretary of the Fire Brigades Employees Union 1945-48, and also sat on Richmond City Council. In 1945, Cremean's brother Bert Cremean died after surgery, and Jack was elected as a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Clifton Hill in the resulting by-election, where he remained until 1949. In that year, he transferred to federal politics, winning the new seat of Hoddle in the Australian House of Representatives. In 1955, Cremean was one of seven MPs who left the ALP and formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), the precursor to the Democratic Labor Party. Cremean's seat of Hoddle was abolished for the 1955 election, so he contested its successor, Scullin, as an Anti-Communist, but was defeated by the Labor candidate, Ted Peters, the member for Burke. Cremean died in 1982.