constituency_am predecessor successor birth_place assembly nationality party birth_date term_start spouse birthname article_title term_end name occupation
bowen new seat seat abolished rockhampton , queensland , australia queensland legislative australian australian labor party 4 october 1948 1 november 1986 tru-dell martin -lrb- m. 1968 , separated 1990 -rrb- kenneth william smyth ken smyth
 19 september 1992 ken smyth carpenter , coal mining industry
ken smyth

kenneth william `` ken '' smyth -lrb- born 4 october 1948 -rrb- is a former australian politician .
he was born in rockhampton to frederick tomas smyth and annie maud , `` née '' gray ; his parents separated two years after his birth .
he attended both state and catholic schools in mackay before becoming a carpenter and then a miner with the utah company 's peak downs coalmine .
a member of the labor party , he was a belyando shire councillor from 1982 to 1991 and in 1986 was elected as the member for bowen in the queensland legislative assembly .
in 1992 his seat was abolished and he ran unsuccessfully for charters towers .
