John Edward Skidmore was an Australian trade unionist and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1974 to 1982, representing the seat of Swan.
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Jack Skidmore represented the Labor Party until 1981, when he resigned to sit as an independent.
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Jack Skidmore was born in Kellerberrin, Western Australia, to Kate and George Bagnall Jack Skidmore.
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Jack Skidmore trained as an electrician, and during World War II served with an electrical engineering unit in the Australian Army.
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Jack Skidmore served on the Wagin Municipal Council from 1949 to 1951 and the Albany Road Board from 1952 to 1953.
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From 1960, Jack Skidmore worked as a union official, initially with the Electrical Trades Union and then with others.
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Davies was replaced as leader by Brian Burke in a leadership spill in September 1981, and Jack Skidmore resigned from the party in protest the following month, choosing to sit as an independent.
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Jack Skidmore resigned from parliament altogether in January 1982, and his seat was won by Labor's Gordon Hill at the resulting by-election.
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Jack Skidmore eventually reconciled with the Labor Party, and was made a life member in 1999.
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Jack Skidmore had married Vera Haustead in 1945, with whom he had five children.