Thomas Tonkin Edwards (5 December 1875 – 27 September 1951) was an Australian politician who represented the

South Australian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. Overview The House of Assembly was creat ...

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seat of Barossa from 1930 to 1933. He was elected as a member of the Labor Party, but was expelled from the party in the 1931 Labor split and sat with the splinter

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for the remainder of his term. He was a hotelkeeper at Tanunda prior to his election to parliament. He was defeated at the 1933 election, and unsuccessfully attempted to regain his seat later that year in a July by-election for his old seat.

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1875 births 1951 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia Members of the South Australian House of Assembly {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub