Joseph Lamaro (27 July 1895 – 22 May 1951) was an Australian politician. Born in Redfern to shopkeeper Deico Lamaro and Maria Giuseppa Taranto, Italian migrants, he attended St Joseph's School in Newtown and St Patrick's College in

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before studying at the

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, receiving a

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in 1915 and a

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in 1922. He served in the Australian Imperial Force's 18th Battalion from 1916 to 1917 in the signals unit, seeing action at

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and the Somme. He was called to the Bar in 1922 and a member of the first Australian Board of Control from 1924 to 1927. In 1927 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for Enmore, shifting to Petersham in 1930 and Leichhardt in 1932. Lamaro served as Minister of Justice from 1930 to 1931 and Attorney-General from 1931 to 1932. In 1934 he resigned his seat to contest the federal seat of Watson, but he was unsuccessful and returned to law as a solicitor. He worked in private law firms until 1940 and was recalled to the Bar in 1941; in 1943 he was appointed a Crown Prosecutor and in 1947 a

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judge. Lamaro died in 1951 at

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