Daniel Burke (26 June 1827 – 13 August 1927) was an Australian politician.
Burke was born in
Thurles
Thurles (; ''Durlas Éile'') is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of the same name in the barony of Eliogarty and in the ecclesiastical parish of Thurles (Roman Catholic parish), Thurles. The cathedral ch ...
in
County Tipperary
County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after th ...
in 1827. In 1893 he won a by-election for the
Tasmanian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart.
The Assembly has 25 m ...
seat of
Cressy following
Edmund Sutton
Sir Edmund Sutton (1425 – c. 1485)
Early life
Sutton was born in Dudley, the eldest son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, KG, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Berkeley.
Career
He fought alongside his father during the conflic ...
's death. He served until the abolition of his seat in 1903. He died in 1927 in
Moltema.
References
1827 births
1927 deaths
Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
Australian centenarians
Men centenarians
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