Thomas Edwards (Australian politician)

Thomas Tonkin Edwards (5 December 1875 – 27 September 1951) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Barossa from 1930 to 1933. He was elected as a member of the Labor Party, but was expelled from the party in the 1931 Labor split and sat with the splinter Parliamentary Labor Party for the remainder of his term.^[1]

He was a hotelkeeper at Tanunda prior to his election to parliament.^[2] He was defeated at the 1933 election, and unsuccessfully attempted to regain his seat later that year in a July by-election for his old seat.

References

↑ Thomas Edwards: SA Parliament
↑ "MEN LIKELY TO LOSE SEATS". The Mail (Adelaide). 21, (1, 089). South Australia. 8 April 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 23 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

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[1] Thomas Edwards: SA Parliament

[2] "MEN LIKELY TO LOSE SEATS". The Mail (Adelaide). 21, (1, 089). South Australia. 8 April 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 23 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.