death_place death_date birth_place party birth_date article_title name
brisbane , queensland 31 july 1998 heddon greta , new south wales australian labor party 3 april 1913 clarrie earl
 clarrie earl
clarrie earl

clarence joseph earl -lrb- 3 april 1913 -- 31 july 1998 -rrb- was an australian politician and a member of the new south wales legislative assembly from 1953 until 1973 .
he was a member of the australian labor party -lrb- alp -rrb- .
earl was born in heddon greta and was the son of a coal-miner .
he was educated at christian brothers ' high school , lewisham and initially worked as a farmhand on sheep stations .
he attended sydney teachers college in 1937 and 1938 and worked as a teacher between 1939 and 1940 and between 1944 and 1953 .
between 1940 and 1944 he served with the 2nd australian imperial force and was wounded at tobruk .
earl was elected to parliament as the member for the new and notionally safe labor seat of fairfield at the 1953 state election .
earl retained the seat at the next 2 elections and transferred to the new and equally safe seat of bass hill at the 1962 .
fairfield was successfully contested for labor by the future deputy premier jack ferguson whose seat of merrylands had been abolished .
earl retained bass hill until he retired from public life at the 1973 election .
his retirement allowed the future premier neville wran to transfer from the legislative council to an assembly seat at the 1973 election .
he did not hold party , parliamentary or ministerial office .
