James Edmund McCabe (7 October 1922 – 24 January 2019) was an Australian politician.

Early life

He was born in

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to farmer Roy Clifton McCabe and schoolteacher Margaret Maud Renkin, and was educated at local state schools. He became a stock and station agent, and also worked as a butcher at

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before becoming a farmer at Gerung Gerung. During

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he served with the Australian Imperial Force in the Middle East and Borneo, and on 26 February 1947 he married Florence Hope Eastick, with whom he had four children. A member of the

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, he was elected to the

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in 1964 as the member for Lowan. Defeated in 1967, he was returned in 1970 and held the seat until his defeat in 1979. He died in January 2019 at the age of 96.JAMES McCABE Obituary
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCabe, Jim 1922 births 2019 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Australian military personnel of World War II Australian stock and station agents