Alfred Ozanne

Who was Alfred Ozanne?

Alfred Thomas Montgomery Madden Ozanne was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was the son of Marcel Charles Ozanne a Frenchman and his wife Emilia Josephine Reinhardt. Ozanne has four siblings, a brother and three sisters. Ozanne married Edith Stewart Moody in 1900 and they had four children all born at Werribee. Ozanne had been an accountant and municipal officer before entering politics. In 1910, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Corio. Defeated in 1913, he returned to the House in 1914, again as the member for Corio, but he was defeated again in 1917, and he retired from politics, becoming a farmer near Geelong. Ozanne died at Brighton, Melbourne on 27 May 1961 and was cremated at Springvale Cemetery.