Tom Fox (politician)

Tom Fox
Tom Fox
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Fox
Date of birth	3 October 1876
Place of birth	Scarsdale, Victoria
Date of death	Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.
Place of death	Fremantle, Western Australia
Original team(s)	Ballarat Imperials
Height/Weight	175 cm / 75 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club
1902	Carlton
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1902 season.

Tom 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]

Biography

Fox was born in Scarsdale, Victoria on 3 October 1876.

By 1903, he had moved to Fremantle and was working as a dockworker. He became Secretary of the Waterside Workers Union prior to his election as the Australian Labor Party candidate for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, representing South Fremantle in 1935.^[3] Fox retained this post until his death in 1951.

Fox was survived by his wife Marion Fox, two daughters and a son.

Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Alick McCallum	Member for South Fremantle 1935–1951	Succeeded by Dick Lawrence

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