Tom Fox (politician)

Tom Fox
Personal information
Full name Thomas Fox
Date of birth (1876-10-03)3 October 1876
Place of birth Scarsdale, Victoria
Date of death 20 April 1951(1951-04-20) (aged 74)
Place of death Fremantle, Western Australia
Original team(s) Ballarat Imperials
Height / weight 175 cm / 75 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1902 Carlton 10 (7)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1902.

Tom Fox (3 October 1876 – 20 April 1951)[1] was an Australian politician, who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1935 to 1951. Earlier, in 1902, Fox played with Australian rules football club Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Biography

Fox was born in Scarsdale, Victoria on 3 October 1876.

By 1903, he had moved to Davyhust in the Western Australian Goldfields with a friend Frank Bourke where both worked in the mines. He later moved to Boulder where he gained interest in the union movement and the welfare of workers. Following injuries he received as a result of a cave in and the birth of his youngest child he moved to Fremantle and was working as a dockworker.

He became Secretary and President of the Waterside Workers Union prior to his election as the Australian Labor Party candidate for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, representing South Fremantle in 1935.[3] Fox retained this post until his death in 1951.

Fox was survived by his wife Marion Fox, a son John, daughters Marion Dwyer and Margaet Jennings.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Family Notices.". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 21 April 1951. p. 27. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  3. ↑ "THE TWO BY-ELECTIONS.". Westralian Worker (Perth, WA: 1900–1951). Perth: National Library of Australia. 10 May 1935. p. 1. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
Alick McCallum		 Member for South Fremantle
1935–1951 		Succeeded by
Dick Lawrence


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