Cyril Joseph Cahill (21 November 1900 – 18 April 1977) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to schoolteacher William John Cahill and Ada, ''née'' Radford. His brother,

Jim Cahill James Edward Cahill (15 April 1903 – 21 August 1978) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term from 1953 until 1956. He was also an indirectly elected member of the New South Wales Leg ...

, was also a politician. He attended De La Salle College in

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and the

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, where he studied pharmacy. On 17 June 1925 he married Grace Daley at Ballina; they had one daughter. From 1926 he ran a pharmacy in Tamworth which he expanded to a chain across northern New South Wales. He had been a member of the Labor Party since 1940, and in 1949 he was elected to the

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. He was expelled from the ALP in 1959 for voting against the abolition of the Legislative Council, whereafter he was a member of the

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. He was the ILP's last remaining representative when he died at Tamworth in 1977.

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1900 births 1977 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council Independent Labor Group politicians Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub