Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk (17 January 1906 – 10 August 1966) was a Liberal party member of the

House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada (french: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Common ...

. Born in

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Yarmouth is a town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. A port town, industries include fishing, and tourism. It is the terminus of a ferry service to Bar Harbor, Maine, run by Bay Ferries. History Originally inhabited by the Mi'kmaq, the regio ...

, he was an administrator and teacher by career. He was first elected at the

Digby—Yarmouth Digby—Yarmouth was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 to 1953. This riding was created in 1947 from parts of Digby—Annapolis—Kings and Shelbu ...

riding in the 1949 general election after local Liberal party members chose him as their candidate. After a redistribution of electoral districts, Kirk was re-elected for successive terms at

Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1968. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Dig ...

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

and

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...

. He was defeated in the 1958 election by

Felton Legere Felton Fenwick Legere (18 September 1913 – 15 August 1963) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Stoney Island, Nova Scotia, the son of Aldric Legere and Evangeline Amirault.Le Petit ...

of the Liberal party. In 1952 Kirk was a Canadian delegate to the Seventh General Conference of UNESCO in Paris. Kirk died at the Kentville Sanitorium in the evening of 10 August 1966, aged 60.

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* 1906 births 1966 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia People from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-politician-stub