Daniel John Mahoney (25 January 1909 – 11 September 1996) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

from 1959 to 1976. Mahoney was born in Bondi, and was educated at Marist Brothers' High School. He began working for the Postmaster-General's Department in 1925, working as a telephone mechanic and later as a divisional engineer. He was an alderman on the

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council from 1954 until 1959, including a year as mayor in 1958. He was also a director of Parramatta District Hospital from 1956 until 1959. He was the Labor candidate at the 1958 Parramatta by-election, at which Sir

Garfield Barwick Sir Garfield Edward John Barwick, (22 June 190313 July 1997) was an Australian judge who was the seventh and longest serving Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1964 to 1981. He had earlier been a Liberal Party politician, serving as a ...

entered politics, losing to the future Attorney-General and Chief Justice of the High Court. Mahoney entered state politics at the 1959 election, when he won the state seat of

Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban ...

, which had been vacated by retiring Liberal MLA

Jim Clough James Arthur Clough (13 July 1916 – 20 May 2003) was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Parramatta in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1959, and for Eastwood from 1965 to 1988. Clough was born i ...

. He was easily re-elected on five occasions, always winning on the primary vote. Mahoney retired at the 1976 election, and was succeeded by Labor MLA

Barry Wilde Barry Charles Wilde (3 September 1928 – 18 January 2018) was an Australian politician. He served as a Labor Party Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1976 until 1988, representing the electorate of Parramatta. Wilde pr ...

. Mahoney served as a director of the Parramatta Leagues Club after his retirement from politics. He died at

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in 1996.

Legacy

The Dan Mahoney Reserve in North Parramatta is named for him.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mahoney, Dan 1909 births 1996 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian people of Irish descent Politicians from Sydney Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians Mayors and Lord Mayors of Parramatta