Henry Austin (politician)

Henry Austin ( born October 20, 1920 in Sakthikulangara, Kollam, † 15 May 2008 Thiruvananthapuram ) was an Indian politician and ambassador.

Life

Henry Austin was a journalist, politician, social workers, trade unionists and congressman of Kerala. He attended school in Kollam and studied at St. Aloysius College (Mangalore ), the Society of Jesus in Mangalore, Karnataka and in Nagercoil, and Washington, DC He graduated from the Art Academy in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, where he later studied at the Law School of Law

From 1959 he was a member of the All India Congress Committee ( AICC ) of the Indian National Congress.

From 1959 to 1961 he was general secretary of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee.

From 1971 to 1973, from 1977 to 1980 he sat for the constituency of Ernakulam Kerala Lok Sabha in the Indian Parliament. In the 1979 election, he stepped in the Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency of Kerala, Xavier Arackal to the Congress Party, which had called for Indira Gandhi.

From 28 July 1979 to January 14, 1980 he was in the government of Chaudhary Charan Singh Permanent State civil and food supply.

September 2, 1987 to March 3, 1990, he was Ambassador in Lisbon.

Austin visited his daughter in Thiruvananthapuram, where he died on the way to hospital. It lies in the cemetery of the Infant Jesus Church in Cochin ( India).