George Foley
| George Foley | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Kalgoorlie |
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In office 18 December 1920 – 16 December 1922 |
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| Preceded by | Hugh Mahon |
| Succeeded by | Albert Green |
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| Born |
28 November 1872 Walhalla, Victoria |
| Died | 27 October 1945 (aged 72) Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party |
Labor (1911–17) National Labor (1917–20) Nationalist (1920–22) |
| Spouse(s) | Fannie Gill |
| Occupation | Miner and auctioneer |
| Religion | Congregationalist |
George James Foley (28 November 1872 – 27 October 1945) was an Australian politician from Western Australia. He was the member for the Western Australian seat of Mount Leonora from 1911 until 1920, initially for the Labor Party until 1917 when he joined the National Labor Party. He then entered the Federal House of Representatives as the Nationalist member for the seat of Kalgoorlie, which he held until 1922.
Foley was born in Walhalla on the Victorian goldfields to Thomas Foley, a miner and railway employee, and Elizabeth Foley (née Stamp). He was educated at local schools before entering a state training college in Melbourne and gaining employment with a newspaper in Richmond. He moved to Western Australia in 1895 and took up gold mining, becoming part-owner of the Grace Darling mine at Broad Arrow. On 27 January 1902, he married Fannie Gill at the Wesley Church in Kalgoorlie. He joined the Federated Miners Union and served as its Gwalia branch president, and later became president of the North Goldfields Council of the Labor Federation.
Prior to the October 1911 state election, he was selected by Labor to contest the seat of Mount Leonora; he obtained 1,019 of the 1,172 valid votes cast and entered the Legislative Assembly. He won the seat without opposition at the 1914 election.
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