Mick Ryan (politician)


Lionel William "Mick" Ryan was an Australian politician.
He was born in Bathurst to Thomas and Abigail Ryan. He was a rural worker who was active in the Australian Workers' Union. From 1925 to 1943 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He opposed Jack Lang and sat as Federal Labor in the 1930s; he also took an active organisational role in Federal Labor in opposition to Lang Labor in federal and state elections. Ryan died in Croydon in 1970.