Thomas James Cahill (12 February 1924 – 23 June 1983) was an Australian politician, affiliated with the Labor Party and elected as a member of the

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Biography

The son of John Joseph Cahill,

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from 1952 to 1959, and his wife Esme, he was born in

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. He was educated at De La Salle College, Marrickville, and then became a bank officer, working with the Rural Bank for nineteen years. He served in the

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, 31/51st Battalion, from 1942 to 1946 in

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and the

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. Cahill joined the Clemton Park branch of the Labor Party in 1953 and was elected to the Legislative Assembly as member for Cook's River at a December 1959 by-election triggered by the death of his father. He represented this electorate until the 1973 election, when he moved to the seat of

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, which he held until his death in 1983 at

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. He married Valerie Bryant on 5 February 1949, and they had one daughter and three sons.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cahill, Thomas Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1924 births 1983 deaths People from Marrickville Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians Australian Army personnel of World War II