Jens Jensen (politician)

Jens August Jensen was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy.

Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbithawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst she died in 1894 leaving him with a son and four daughters. He remarried Bertha Hopton in August 1896 and became a successful publican.

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