Thomas Perry (Australian politician)

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Thomas Oswald Perry (17 January 1914 – 8 March 1998) was an Australian politician from Western Australia. A member of the Country Party, he served in the Western Australian Legislative Council for Lower Central Province from 1965 to 1977.

Born in Collie, Perry left school at 13 to work on his father’s farm in Darkan, which he later took over. He served on the West Arthur Shire Council from 1946 to 1965 and was shire president from 1949 to 1958. He was elected in 1965 to the new Lower Central Province, re-elected in 1971, and retired in 1977.

Perry died in Collie in 1998, aged 84. He married Margaret Joan Trigwell in 1941 and had three children.