James Minahan

James Mark Minahan was an Irish-born Australian politician.
Born in County Clare to bootmaker Patrick Minahan and Mary Murphy, Minahan migrated to New South Wales around 1883 and partnered with his brother Patrick as a boot manufacturer. Around 1900 he married Mary Eileen Killeen, with whom he had four children. From 1925 to 1934 he served as a Australian [Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) |Labor] Party member of the New South [Wales Legislative Council]; he opposed Jack Lang in the 1930s and sat as a Federal Labor representative. Minahan died at Waverley, [New South Wales| Waverley] in 1941.