Tom Fox (Australian politician)

Thomas Fox (3 October 1876 – 20 April 1951)[1] 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 Australian rules football club Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

For other politicians of this name, see Thomas Fox (disambiguation).

Tom Fox
Personal information
Full name Thomas Fox
Date of birth (1876-10-03)3 October 1876
Place of birth Scarsdale, Victoria
Date of death 20 April 1951(1951-04-20) (aged 74)
Place of death Fremantle, Western Australia
Original team(s) Ballarat Imperials
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1902 Carlton 10 (7)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1902.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Biography

Fox was born in Scarsdale, Victoria 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 Mines Rovers Football Club. 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 after the birth of his youngest child, he moved to Fremantle 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 Western Australian Legislative Assembly, representing South Fremantle in 1935.[3][4] 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.

Notes
  1. "Mr. T. Fox Dead". The West Australian. Vol. 67, no. 20, 204. Western Australia. 21 April 1951. p. 8. Retrieved 21 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  3. "THE TWO BY-ELECTIONS". Westralian Worker. Perth. 10 May 1935. p. 1. Retrieved 7 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Fremantle News and Views". Westralian Worker. No. 1378. Western Australia. 5 April 1935. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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