Tom Keegan (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician, and rugby league administrator
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About Tom Keegan (politician)
- Thomas Michael "Tom" Keegan (29 May 1878 – 14 September 1937) was an Australian politician. Born in Ararat, Victoria to miner John Walter Keegan and Mary Flood, he attended primary schools before becoming a miner at Wyalong.
- Active in the miners' union and the Labor Party, he moved to Sydney around 1901.
- Around 1902 he married Marie Hallan, with whom he had three children; he would remarry Doris Martin around 1927.
- In 1910 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Glebe.Keegan was elected president of the Glebe Rugby League Club, a position he would remain in until 1920.Keegan was defeated in the election of 1920 after the introduction of proportional representation but returned to the Assembly via a casual vacancy as one of the members for Balmain.
- When proportional representation was abandoned in 1927 he returned to his old seat of Glebe, serving until 1925.
- From May to October 1927 he served as Minister for Local Government.
- Keegan died in 1937 in Sydney.His brother John was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1925 to 1934.
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