Daniel Francis Dwyer (5 February 1871 – 30 July 1942) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Mount Kembla
Mount Kembla is a suburb and a mountain in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.
The suburb, a semi-rural township of Wollongong, gets its name from the mountain, located on the Illawarra escarpment, is derived from an Aborig ...
to miner Daniel Dwyer and Mary, ''née'' Hourigan. He worked as a shop assistant and eventually a storeman and was an organiser for the Shop Assistants Union from around 1915 to 1920. He was also involved in the Labor Council of New South Wales, serving on the executive in 1916 and as president from 1917 to 1918. In 1920 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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as a
Labor
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the la ...
member for
Eastern Suburbs Eastern Suburbs may refer to:
Places
*Eastern Suburbs (Mumbai), India
*Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Australia
**Eastern Suburbs railway line, Sydney, Australia
Sports clubs
;Association football
*Eastern Suburbs AFC, Auckland, New Zealand
* Eastern ...
, but he was defeated in 1922. He died in
Sydney in 1942.
References
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1871 births
1942 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales