Thomas William Massey (1830 - 15 January 1914) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the

Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ...

from June 1902 to April 1903, representing the electorate of

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. Massey was elected to the House of Assembly unopposed in 1902 following the mid-term death of MP Frank Archer. He was aligned with the opposition to Premier

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and with the Reform League. The Selby seat was abolished in a redistribution in 1903, and Massey was defeated for the new seat of North Esk. Massey was a member and chairman of the Invermay Town Board (to 1907), a justice of the peace, a member of the Licensing Bench and from 1895 to 1909 an Anglican parish church warden. He opposed the 1907 amalgamation of the Invermay Board with the Launceston municipality, but was outvoted and resigned.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Massey, Thomas 1830 births 1914 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly