death_date birth_date constituency_am term_end restingplace death_place term_start spouse name occupation otherparty predecessor birth_place assembly party office successor religion premier article_title
19 february 1967 22 february 1890 melbourne 31 march 1955 22 april 1955 coburg cemetery warrandyte , victoria , australia 17 december 1952 26 june 1924 margaret ann lynch 4 september 1915 thomas hayes railway worker australian labor party -lrb- anti-communist -rrb- democratic labor party ivan swinburne alexander rogers ararat , victoria victorian legislative australian labor party minister-in-charge of housing and materials john sheehan arthur clarey roman catholic john cain tom hayes -lrb- australian politician -rrb-

tom hayes -lrb- australian politician -rrb-

thomas hayes -lrb- 22 february 1890 -- 19 february 1967 -rrb- 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 .
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 .
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 -lrb- anti-communist -rrb- -- relinquishing his ministerial portfolio to john sheehan .
he was defeated in the 1955 state election , but remained active in the democratic labor party , serving as deputy leader in victoria in 1961 .
