John Lang (Australian politician)
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The Honourable Jack Lang |
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| 23rd Premier of New South Wales Elections: 1925, 1927, 1930, 1932 |
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In office 17 June 1925 – 18 October 1927 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Governor | Sir Dudley de Chair |
| Preceded by | George Fuller |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Bavin |
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In office 4 November 1930 – 13 May 1932 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Governor | Sir Philip Game |
| Preceded by | Thomas Bavin |
| Succeeded by | Bertram Stevens |
| Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Auburn |
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In office 8 October 1927 – 15 August 1946 |
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| Preceded by | New district |
| Succeeded by | James Lang |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Reid |
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In office 28 September 1946 – 10 December 1949 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Morgan |
| Succeeded by | Charles Morgan |
| 11th Mayor of Auburn | |
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In office 19 February 1909 – 10 February 1911 |
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| Preceded by | Dr. Francis Henry Furnival |
| Succeeded by | John Hunter |
| Alderman of the Auburn Municipal Council for Newington Ward | |
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In office 20 April 1907 – March 1914 |
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| Preceded by | New ward |
| Succeeded by | Henry Ibbett |
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21 December 1876 Sydney, Colony of New South Wales |
| Died | 27 September 1975 (aged 98) Auburn, New South Wales, Australia |
| Resting place | Rookwood Cemetery |
| Political party |
Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch) Lang Labor Non-Communist Labor |
John Thomas Lang (21 December 1876 – 27 September 1975), usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella", was an Australian politician who twiced served as the 23rd Premier of New South Wales from 1925 to 1927 and again from 1930 1932. He was dismissed by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, at the climax of the 1932 constitutional crisis and resoundingly lost the resulting election and subsequent elections as Leader of the Opposition. He later formed Lang Labor and was briefly a member of the Australian House of Representatives.
John Thomas Lang was born on 21 December 1876 on George Street, Sydney, close to the present site of The Metro Theatre (between Bathurst Street and Liverpool Street). He was the third son (and sixth of ten children) of James Henry Lang, a watchmaker born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Mary Whelan, a milliner born in Galway, Ireland. His mother and father had arrived in Australia in 1848 and 1860, respectively, and married in Melbourne, Victoria, on 11 June 1866, moving to Sydney five years later. Although Lang's father had been born Presbyterian, he later became a Catholic like his wife, and the family "fitted into the normal low social stratum of the great majority of Sydney's Catholics".
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