Joseph Anthony Bodkin (11 August 1902 – 18 March 1950) was an Australian politician. He was born in Lithgow to union organiser George Clifford Bodkin and Bridget Ellen Callaghan. He attended a convent school in

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and then a

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public school, working for the railways from the age of fourteen. He was involved with the railway branch of the

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, working as an organiser from 1924 to 1926. He married Mary Elizabeth Delany, with whom he had six daughters. From 1927 he worked for the Public Works Department and later with the Metropolitan, Water, Sewerage and Draining Board, in the course of which he worked on the

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. From 1948 to 1950 he served on

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, and from 1946 to 1950 he was a

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member of the

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. He died at

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in 1950.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodkin, Joseph 1902 births 1950 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians Councillors of Sydney County Council People from Lithgow, New South Wales