Edward Breslin

Edward Denis Joseph Breslin was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Breslin was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of Cornelius Connell Breslin and his wife Ellen. He was educated at Nudgee College in Brisbane before attending St John's College, Sydney.
Breslin died at Gladstone in August 1914.

Public life

Breslin, representing Labour, won the seat of Port Curtis in the Queensland Legislative Assembly at the 1909 state election. He held the seat in 1912 state election by two votes but the election of Breslin was later declared null and void by Justice Charles Chubb, the elections judge of the Queensland Supreme Court and he lost the resulting by-election in October 1912.