Michael Burke (11 October 1843 – 21 March 1909) was an Australian politician. He was born at Tamworth to shepherd Thomas Burke and Margaret Dwyer. He was a carpenter and possibly a policeman before entering politics. On 20 September 1866 he married Catherine Agnes Leahy, with whom he had six children (one of these was Frank Burke, later

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). In 1885 he was elected to the

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for Tamworth, but he did not re-contest in 1887. Burke died at Newtown in 1909.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Burke, Michael 1843 births 1909 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians