Tom Hayes (Australian politician)

{{short description|Australian politician}}

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{{Infobox AM

|name = Tom Hayes

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|office = Minister-in-Charge of Housing and Materials

|premier = John Cain

|term_start = 17 December 1952

|term_end = 31 March 1955

|predecessor = Ivan Swinburne

|successor = John Sheehan

|constituency_AM2 = Melbourne

|assembly2 = Victorian Legislative

|term_start2 = 26 June 1924

|term_end2 = 22 April 1955

|predecessor2 = Alexander Rogers

|successor2 = Arthur Clarey

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|2|22|df=y}}

|birth_place = Ararat, Victoria

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1967|2|19|1890|2|22|df=y}}

|death_place = Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia

|restingplace = Coburg Cemetery

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|party = Labor Party

|otherparty = Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)
Democratic Labor Party

|spouse = {{marriage|Margaret Ann Lynch|4 September 1915}}

|occupation = Railway worker

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Thomas Hayes (22 February 1890 – 19 February 1967) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor Party member for Melbourne in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1924 to 1955.

Hayes was born in Ararat, Victoria to an Irish railway worker, Patrick Hayes, and his wife Sarah. He was educated at St Mary's School, and then followed his father into the railway industry, joining the Ararat branch of Victorian Railways, and was later transferred to Melbourne. During the early 1920s, he was president of the shunters section and later the transportation sections of the Australian Railways Union.[http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1137 Hayes, Thomas], Re-member (Parliament of Victoria), 1985.

At the 1924 state election, he was elected to the seat of Melbourne for the Labor Party. He was also a councillor on the Melbourne City Council from 1939 to 1965. When the government of John Cain took office in December 1952, Hayes was appointed to the Cain Ministry as Minister-in-Charge of Housing and the associated portfolio of Minister-in-Charge of Materials.

In March 1955, Hayes left the ALP in the 1955 split and joined the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)—relinquishing his ministerial portfolio to John Sheehan.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71874203 |title=Cain silent on poll. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=2 April 1955 |accessdate=10 May 2012 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} He was defeated in the 1955 state election,Ainsley Symons (2012), 'Democratic Labor Party members in the Victorian Parliament of 1955–1958,' in Recorder (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne Branch) No. 275, November, Pages 4-5. but remained active in the Democratic Labor Party, serving as deputy leader in Victoria in 1961.