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Thomas Richard Smith (1843 – 23 July 1918) was an Australian politician. He was born at
Mount Druitt Mount Druitt is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown, and is part of the Greater Western Sydney reg ...
to publican Thomas Smith and Jane Laimbeer. He attended a local Anglican school and became a commercial agent. He later worked as a produce merchant, business owner, wheat farmer and publican. He was also a Penrith alderman, and served as mayor from 1889 to 1890. In 1877 he was elected to the
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as the member for
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. He was defeated in 1887, having become loosely associated with the
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rs, but over the next few years contested elections as a
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, winning Nepean again in 1895. He was defeated in 1898 but elected again in 1901. In 1904 the Assembly was reduced in size, and he was defeated running for
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. Smith had married Kerzia Colless in 1867; they had four children. He died at Penrith in 1918.


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  {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Thomas Richard 1843 births 1918 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Protectionist Party politicians