Tony Mulvihill
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James Anthony Mulvihill (27 April 1919 – 10 December 2000) was an Australian politician. Born in
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, he was educated at
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schools before becoming a railways employee. He was an official with the Australian Railways Union and then served as Assistant Secretary of the
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Labor Party from 1957 to 1965. In 1964, he was elected to the
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as a
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Senator for New South Wales. He remained in the Senate until his retirement in 1983. Mulvihill died in 2000, aged 81.


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1919 births 2000 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian Senate for New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-senator-stub