Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor |
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4 May 1935 |
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South Fremantle |
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Electorates
- MLA South Fremantle 4 May 1935 (by-election)–20 April 1951
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1943–1947
- Member Select Committee inquiring into Investment and Security Company of Western Australia Limited 1937
- Chairman Select Committee inquiring into the Commonwealth Oil Refineries Limited (Private) Bill 1940
- Member Select Committee inquiring into the Utility of the Railway Devices invented by Walter Watts 1942
- Member Select Committee into the operations of the Australian Wheat Board at North Fremantle 1942–1943
- Member Select Committee into the Disposal of Potatoes 1949
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Personal Information |
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23 October 1876 |
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Scarsdale, Victoria, Australia |
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20 April 1951 |
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Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1906 |
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John Fox, farmer, and Rose Anna Mary Higgins |
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Married 5 February 1908, Gordon, Victoria to Eliza Marion Sterritt (1882–1959), daughter of William and Marion Henderson
Children: one son and two daughters |
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Catholic |
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Union secretary |
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Prospecting and mining at Davyhurst 1906–1915 and at Boulder 1915–1918
To Fremantle to work on the wharves |
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Joined Fremantle branch Waterside Workers Federation circa 1918–1919, president 1924–1928, secretary 1928–1935
Played VFL Football with Carlton 1902 |
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David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume two, 1930-2010 (rev. ed.). Perth: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2011, p. 91-92. |
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