Thomas Fox (3 October 1876 – 20 April 1951) was an Australian politician, who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1935 to 1951. Earlier, in 1902, Fox played with

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club

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in the

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(VFL).

Biography

Fox was born in

Scarsdale, Victoria Scarsdale is a small town in rural Victoria, Australia, and approximately 25 km south west of Ballarat. It is situated in the north-western part of Golden Plains Shire, on the bank of the Woady Yaloak River and is primarily an agricultural ...

on 3 October 1876. By 1903, he had moved to Davyhust in the Western Australian Goldfields with a friend Frank Bourke where both worked in the mines and played football for

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. He later moved to Boulder where he gained interest in the union movement and the welfare of workers. Following injuries he received as a result of a cave in and the birth of his youngest child, he moved to

Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for ...

and was working as a dockworker. He became Secretary and President of the Waterside Workers Union prior to his election as the Labor Party candidate for the

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, representing South Fremantle in 1935. Fox retained this post until his death in 1951. Fox was survived by his wife Marion Fox, a son John, and daughters Marion Dwyer and Margaret Jennings.

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at Blueseum 1876 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Carlton Football Club players Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Australian sportsperson-politicians Ballarat Imperial Football Club players Mines Rovers Football Club players 1951 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub