Thomas Glassey | |
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| Senator for Queensland | |
| In office 30 March 1901 –31 December 1903 | |
| Leader of the Opposition of Queensland | |
| In office 30 August 1898 –12 May 1899 | |
| Succeeded by | Anderson Dawson |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Bundamba | |
| In office 12 May 1888 –13 May 1893 | |
| Preceded by | James Foote |
| Succeeded by | Lewis Thomas |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Burke | |
| In office 16 June 1894 –21 March 1896 | |
| Preceded by | John Hoolan |
| Succeeded by | John Hoolan |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Bundaberg | |
| In office 21 March 1896 –22 June 1901 | |
| Preceded by | Michael Duffy |
| Succeeded by | George Barber |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 February 1844 Markethill,Armagh,Ireland |
| Died | 28 September 1936 (aged 92) Brisbane,Queensland,Australia |
| Resting place | Toowong Cemetery |
| Political party | Protectionist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Labour Party |
| Spouse | Margaret Fergeson White (m.1864 d.1899) |
| Occupation | Miner |
Thomas Glassey (26 February 1844 – 28 September 1936) was an Irish-born Australian politician.
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Born in Markethill,County Armagh,he received no formal education,working as a mill-worker and miner in Scotland and England. He migrated to Australia around 1885,when he became a miner at Bundamba,and was Secretary of the Bundamba Miners Association. He was a founding member of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland. He was the first Labor member of any Australian parliament when he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in 1888 as the member for Bundamba. [1] [2]
Defeated in 1893,he was subsequently a member of Burke from 1894 to 1896 and Bundaberg from 1896 to 1900. [2] He left the Labor Party in 1899 over the party's socialist objective. In 1901,he was elected to the Australian Senate for Queensland, [3] unofficially as a Protectionist (though there was no protectionist organisation in Queensland at the time). In 1903,the National Liberal Union endorsed non-Labor candidates,and Glassey,as a Deakinite,did not receive endorsement. He contested the Senate as an independent protectionist and received 25.6% of the vote,but was not elected. [4]
Glassey died in 1936 and was buried in Toowong Cemetery. [5]
