death_date death_place birth_place title nationality party name birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end birth_name
25 november 1988 preston , victoria , australia maryborough , victoria , australia senator for victoria australian democratic labor party jack little 13 october 1914 1 july 1968 ila elizabeth clark jack little -lrb- politician -rrb-
 18 may 1974 john albert little
jack little -lrb- politician -rrb-

john albert `` jack '' little -lrb- 13 october 1914 -- 25 november 1988 -rrb- was an australian politician .
born in maryborough , victoria , he was educated at east brunswick and thornbury state primary schools , before becoming a clicker in a shoe factory in collingwood , and later an official with the victorian boot employees ' union , of which he was federal president in 1944 and 1945 .
in 1952 was awarded a commonwealth bank scholarship for six months , to study unionism and working conditions in the uk , europe and the us .
in 1954 he was elected to the victorian legislative council for melbourne north , representing the australian labor party .
he left the labor party in 1955 and would be one of only two non-catholic parliamentary members of the australian labor party -lrb- anti-communist -rrb- , the other being robert joshua , who became the leader of the party in the australian house of representatives .
little led the alp -lrb- anti-communist -rrb- in the legislative council from 1955 until 1958 , the last two of those years as leader of the democratic labor party , which was the new name for the alp -lrb- anti-communist -rrb- .
little re-contested his province at the expiry of his term in 1958 , but like all other dlp candidates at that election he was defeated .
on losing his seat in 1958 he purchased a newsagency in reservoir , victoria , which he ran until his election to the australian senate in 1968 .
little successfully contested dlp preselection for the senate in 1958 , in which he defeated the original leader of the alp -lrb- anti-communist -rrb- leslie coleman .
it has been argued that little was preferred as a dlp candidate because he was not a catholic .
the dlp was popularly regarded as a catholic party , and a non-catholic candidate had certain electoral attractions .
little contested senate elections several times for the dlp .
he was narrowly defeated by alp candidate charles sandford in 1958 , but he was successful in the 1967 senate only election .
little had the same name as a well-known and popular australian-american television wrestling commentator , and it has been suggested that promotion of little 's full name by the dlp , particularly in television advertising , was a factor that added to his vote .
little was defeated at the 1974 federal election , along with the other four dlp senators , when the party 's vote collapsed .
jack little died in 1988 .
