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12 Facts About Thomas Lavelle

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Thomas James Lavelle was an Australian politician.

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Thomas Lavelle was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1919 to 1922, representing the electorate of Calare.

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Thomas Lavelle's father died when he was aged 18, leaving him to support his mother and six younger siblings.

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Thomas Lavelle worked the family farm successfully while taking on work as a shearer and bush worker to supplement the income from the farm.

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Thomas Lavelle worked as an organiser for the Australian Workers' Union for several years.

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Thomas Lavelle campaigned against conscription during the 1916 and 1917 referendums and was the unsuccessful Labor candidate for Calare at the 1917 election.

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Thomas Lavelle sold the farm and moved to Sydney when he was 32, around the time of his election to parliament.

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Thomas Lavelle only served one term when before his defeat by Nationalist Neville Howse at the 1922 election.

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Thomas Lavelle served as president of the Federated Railway Leagues Council.

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Thomas Lavelle was the Labor candidate at the 1930 state election, but then served as a member of the state executive of the Federal Labor Party in the wake of the 1931 Labor split, which saw most of the state branch break away as Lang Labor.

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Thomas Lavelle was an unsuccessful Federal Labor candidate at the 1932 and 1935 state elections and 1934 federal election.

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Thomas Lavelle married Margaret Ann HILDEBRAND in 1920; she predeceased him 10 December 1936.