constituency_am predecessor successor death_date birth_place assembly occupation religion nationality party birth_date term_start spouse birthname article_title term_end name otherparty
keppel rockhampton north viv cooper new seat seat abolished les yewdale 7 june 2014 mackay , queensland , australia queensland legislative queensland legislative engine driver , fireman , grazier church of england australian australian labor party 20 october 1925 3 august 1957 28 may 1960 dorothy scholes mervyn herbert thackeray merv thackeray
 28 may 1960 27 may 1972 merv thackeray independent
merv thackeray

mervyn herbert -lrb- merv -rrb- thackeray -lrb- 20 october 1925 -- 7 june 2014 -rrb- was an australian politician .
he was an australian labor party member of the legislative assembly of queensland from 1957 until 1972 , representing keppel -lrb- 1957 -- 1960 -rrb- and rockhampton north -lrb- 1960 -- 1972 -rrb- .
he was disendorsed in january 1972 and ran unsuccessfully as an independent at the 1972 state election .
thackeray was born in mackay and educated at mackay primary school .
he had a career as a grazier and on the railways before entering politics , working variously as engine driver , fireman , engine cleaner and union delegate .
he entered politics at the 1957 election immediately following the labor split of that year , defeating labor defector and queensland labor party candidate viv cooper on behalf of official labor in the seat of keppel .
his seat of keppel was abolished in 1960 , and he successfully switched to its successor seat of rockhampton north .
he was subsequently re-elected in rockhampton north a further three times .
thackeray had a poor relationship with the party administration throughout the later part of his career .
mike ahern claimed thackeray had been `` on the outer with the alp , partly because he was a left-wing meat worker and partly because he was useless . ''
ahern further claimed that thackeray had been leaking labor tactics to government whip vince jones .
in january 1972 , thackeray , along with two other dissident mlas , col bennett and ed casey , were disendorsed after repeated clashes with the state secretary and state executive .
the three mlas ran for re-election as independents under the banner of the `` true labor party '' , but thackeray and bennett were both soundly defeated .
