Thomas Hayes (Australian politician)

Thomas Hayes
Minister-in-Charge of Housing and Materials
In office
17 December 1952  31 March 1955
Premier John Cain
Preceded by Ivan Swinburne
Succeeded by John Sheehan
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Melbourne
In office
26 June 1924  22 April 1955
Preceded by Alexander Rogers
Succeeded by Arthur Clarey
Personal details
Born 22 February 1890
Ararat, Victoria
Died 19 February 1967 (aged 76)
Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia
Resting place Coburg Cemetery
Political party Australian Labor Party
Other political
affiliations
Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)
Democratic Labor Party
Spouse(s) Margaret Ann Lynch (m. 1915)
Occupation Railway worker
Religion Roman Catholic

Thomas Hayes (22 February 1890 – 19 February 1967) was an Australian politician. He was the Australian 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.[1]

At the 1924 state election, he was elected to the seat of Melbourne for the Australian Labor Party. He was also a councillor on the Melbourne City Council from 1939 to 1965.[1] 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.[2] He was defeated in the 1955 state election,[3] but remained active in the Democratic Labor Party, serving as deputy leader in Victoria in 1961.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hayes, Thomas, Re-member (Parliament of Victoria), 1985.
  2. "Cain silent on poll.". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) (Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia). 2 April 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  3. 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.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
Alexander Rogers
Member for Melbourne
1924–1955
Succeeded by
Arthur Clarey
Political offices
Preceded by
Ivan Swinburne
Minister-in-Charge of Housing and Materials
1952–1955
Succeeded by
John Sheehan