Kenneth Oswald Hoad was an Australian politician.
11 Facts About Ken Hoad
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Ken Hoad was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1925 to 1932, representing the electorate of Cootamundra.
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Ken Hoad was educated at Junee Public School, and joined the Railway Department in 1913.
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Ken Hoad was a porter at Junee from 1913 to 1917 and at Narrabri from 1917 to 1920, and then an operator at Junee from 1920 until his election to parliament in 1925.
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Ken Hoad was an alderman of the Junee Shire Council from 1919 until 1922, and from 1925 to 1928.
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Ken Hoad was the branch secretary of the Railway and Tramway Professional Officers Association until 1925.
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Ken Hoad first attempted to enter state politics at the 1922 election, but was unsuccessful in winning one of the three seats in the Cootamundra electorate.
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In 1925 incumbent Labor MLA and future Premier James McGirr lost party endorsement, and Ken Hoad, heavily supported by the railway unions, was elected to his seat.
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Ken Hoad was re-elected with a much larger margin in 1930, but was defeated in 1932 by Country Party candidate Bill Ross.
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Ken Hoad again contested Cootamundra in 1935 and 1938, but was narrowly defeated by Ross on both occasions.
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Ken Hoad died at Junee in 1944, and was buried in Junee Cemetery.