Clarence Joseph Earl (3 April 1913 – 31 July 1996) was an Australian politician and a member of the

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from 1953 until 1973. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP). Earl was born in Heddon Greta and was the son of a coalminer. He was educated at

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and initially worked as a farmhand on sheep stations. He attended

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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

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and was wounded at

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. Earl was elected to parliament as the member for the new and notionally safe Labor seat of Fairfield at the

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state election. Earl retained the seat at the next 2 elections and transferred to the new and equally safe seat of

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at the

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. Fairfield was successfully contested for Labor by the future Deputy Premier

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whose seat of

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had been abolished. Earl retained Bass Hill until he retired from public life at the

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election. His retirement allowed the future Premier

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to transfer from the

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to an Assembly seat at the 1973 election. He did not hold party, parliamentary or ministerial office.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Earl, Clarrie 1913 births 1996 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians Australian Army personnel of World War II People educated at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham Australian schoolteachers