Tom Fox (Australian politician)
{{For|other politicians of this name|Thomas Fox (disambiguation)}}
{{short description|Australian politician and football player}}
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{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Tom Fox
| image = Tom Fox 1926.jpg
| fullname = Thomas Fox
| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|10|03|df=y}}
| birth_place = Scarsdale, Victoria
| death_date = {{death date and age|1951|04|20|1876|10|03|df=yes}}
| death_place = Fremantle, Western Australia
| originalteam = Ballarat Imperials
| height = 175 cm
| weight = 75 kg
| position =
| statsend = 1902
| years1 = 1902
| club1 = {{AFL Car}}
| games_goals1 = 10 (7)
| careerhighlights =
}}
Thomas Fox (3 October 1876 – 20 April 1951){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48193513 |title=Mr. T. Fox Dead |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=67 |issue=20,204 |location=Western Australia |date=21 April 1951 |accessdate=21 November 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} 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).{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2009 |edition=8th |isbn=978-1-921496-00-4 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=277}}
Biography
Fox was born in Scarsdale, Victoria on 3 October 1876.
By 1903, he had moved to Davyhurst 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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148387087 |title=THE TWO BY-ELECTIONS. |newspaper=Westralian Worker |location=Perth |date=10 May 1935 |accessdate=7 September 2014 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148386689 |title=Fremantle News and Views |newspaper=Westralian Worker |issue=1378 |location=Western Australia |date=5 April 1935 |accessdate=21 November 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} 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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External links
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- {{AFL Tables|ref=T/Tom_Fox.html}}
- [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Tom+Fox Tom Fox's profile] at Blueseum
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{{succession box | title=Member for South Fremantle | before=Alick McCallum | years=1935–1951 | after=Dick Lawrence}}
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Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Category:Carlton Football Club players
Category:Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Category:Australian sportsperson-politicians
Category:Ballarat Imperial Football Club players
Category:Mines Rovers Football Club players
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia
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