Francis Xavier Heerey (21 September 1891 – 15 March 1964) was an Australian politician. He was born in Beaconsfield,

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. In 1937 he was elected to the

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as a

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member for Denison. He served until his defeat in 1941, but he was returned to the House in 1945 in a recount following the death of Sir Edmund Dwyer-Gray. He was defeated again at the 1946 state election. Heerey died in Hobart in 1964. His diaries from his service in

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were published posthumously in 2004.

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1891 births 1964 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania 20th-century Australian politicians People from Beaconsfield, Tasmania {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub