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Labor |
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23 April 1938 |
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Hannans |
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Electorates
- MLA Hannans 23 April 1938 (by-election)–19 December 1948
Committees
- Member Select Committee on the Western Australian Turf Club (Property) Private Bill 1944
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1948 |
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Personal Information |
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19 October 1883 |
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Knightsmountain, Castle Island, Tralee, Kerry, Ireland |
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19 December 1948 |
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Edward Millen Home, Victoria Park, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To WA circa 1906
Moved to Kyneton Victoria as small boy circa 1885 |
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Son of David Leahy, cottier, and Margaret Reidy |
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Married 21 June 1912, St Patrick’s Church, Fremantle to Sophio Fongo (died 16 June 1974), daughter of Batista Fongo and Quinta Ravella
Children: two sons and three daughters |
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Catholic |
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Mines inspector |
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Worked as miner in Sandstone area prior to World War I
In Kalgoorlie by 1916, Boulder by 1920
Workmen’s inspector by 1930s
Granted miners’ settlement farm near Southern Cross in 1929, farm worked by his son until 1933, abandoned in 1934 |
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Kalgoorlie Road Board 21 April 1934–April 1948 |
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Member Australian Workers' Union |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, p. 148.
Kalgoorlie Miner, 23 April 1938, 21 December 1948. |
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