Jack Lang (Australian politician)

John Thomas Lang , 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 was Premier of New South Wales for two terms . He is the only Premier of an Australian state to have been dismissed by the state Governor.

John Thomas Lang was born onDecember 1876 on George Street, Sydney, close to the present site of The Metro Theatre . He was the third son 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, onJune 1866, moving to Sydney five years later. Although Langs 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 Sydneys Catholics.

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