Walter Thomas Padgen (21 March 1882 – 8 May 1955) was a British-born Australian politician. He was born in

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to compositor John Padgen and Emma Eliza Holder. He worked in the

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laboratory before migrating to

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around 1908; there he became an engineer. From 1910 he worked as a machinist on the railways, but he was dismissed in 1917 after supporting a strike and reinstated in 1922. On 19 May 1922 he married Margaret Chayter. From 1941 to 1948 he was a Randwick alderman, serving as mayor in 1948. He was a

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member of the

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from 1946 to 1955, when he died at Rydalmere.

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1882 births 1955 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians Mayors of Randwick British emigrants to Australia {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub