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Born on 8 August 1909 at Wellington in Australia - his parents were John Ignatius Renshaw and Ann Renshaw (née Reidy) - Jack was educated at the Binnaway Central School, Patrician Brothers at Orange , and then Holy Cross College at Ryde in north-western Sydney . After leaving school, he helped to run the family dairy property at Hampden Park, and also helped operate a milk run out of Binnaway. With his brothers he opened a butchery business, as well as a stock and station agency and oil and fuel depot. He joined the Labor Party in 1930, becoming a member of the central executive from 1945 to 1950, then President of the Gwydir electorate council for ten years from 1939. In addition, he was a Councillor on the Coonabarabran Shire Council from 1937 to 1944. For part of that time (1939-40) he was Shire President. He went on to serve as Deputy Premier from 1959 to 1964 (when Robert Heffron was Premier). Once Heffron retired in April 1964, Renshaw became Premier himself. Renshaw's Premiership proved to be no more than a stopgap for a party which, after almost a quarter of a century in government, was tired. It ended in May 1965, when for the first time ever in New South Wales history, the Liberals won power. The Liberal leader, Robert Askin , often used the slogan "Twenty-four years of Labor misrule". Renshaw stayed on as leader of Labor in opposition, until a second defeat in 1968, whereupon he resigned. But he remained an important figure in the party's ruling circles, and he served as Treasurer during the first four years (1976-80) of Neville Wran 's administration. He wed Hilda May Wall in 1943; by her he had a son. Later he was divorced; he married, in 1966, Meg Mackay (who had seven children in total: two by Renshaw, five by a previous marriage). He died at the age of 77 on 28 July 1987 in the Sydney suburb of Northbridge .
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