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Ted Tripp

At the federal election later that year he contested Darling and in 1932 ran for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of King.

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Tripp moved to Melbourne in 1938 and on 30 July married Ruby May Bullock at Carlton.

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He attended boarding school and, despite taking the University of Cambridge entrance examination, became an apprentice to an engineer.

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He worked as a fitter in a munitions factory at Footscray until 1965 but continued his involvement in the radical unionist movement, being appointed tutor at the Victorian Labor College in 1945 and becoming the college's secretary in 1956.

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