- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4162
Hearn, Jean Margaret
- Birth name Button, Jean
- Born 30 March 1921, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Died 20 November 2017, , Tasmania, Australia
- Occupation Civil celebrant, Parliamentarian
Summary
A member of the Australian Labor Party, Jean Hearn served as a Senator for Tasmania in the Senate of the Australian Parliament from 1980 until the expiration of her term in 1985, when she retired.
Her first husband died in 1944 in a prisoner of war camp in Java, an event that sparked Jean Hearn’s life-long commitment to pacifism. She established the Tamar Community Peace Trust in 2015, seeking to promote a non-violent approach to conflict resolution.
Jean Hearn passed away in 2017.
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Resource
- Trove: Hearn, Jean Margaret (19210330-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-750097
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