Thomas Hayes (22 February 1890 – 19 February 1967) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor Party member for

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in the

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from 1924 to 1955. Hayes was born in Ararat, Victoria to an Irish railway worker, Patrick Hayes, and his wife Sarah. He was educated at St Mary's School, and then followed his father into the railway industry, joining the Ararat branch of

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, and was later transferred to Melbourne. During the early 1920s, he was president of the shunters section and later the transportation sections of the Australian Railways Union.Hayes, Thomas
''Re-member'' (Parliament of Victoria), 1985. At the 1924 state election, he was elected to the seat of

for the Labor Party. He was also a councillor on the

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from 1939 to 1965. When the government of John Cain took office in December 1952, Hayes was appointed to the Cain Ministry as Minister-in-Charge of Housing and the associated portfolio of Minister-in-Charge of Materials. In March 1955, Hayes left the ALP in the 1955 split and joined the

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—relinquishing his ministerial portfolio to John Sheehan. He was defeated in the 1955 state election,Ainsley Symons (2012), 'Democratic Labor Party members in the Victorian Parliament of 1955–1958,' in ''Recorder'' (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne Branch) No. 275, November, Pages 4-5. but remained active in the Democratic Labor Party, serving as deputy leader in Victoria in 1961.

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