Education
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools before becoming a dairy farmer at Kingston.
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Thomas Pearsall
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He served in the military 1940 -1945 (TX6060 Lieutenant 2/29 Infantry Battalion. Prisoner Of War Malaya and Thai-Burma Railway and served on Kingsborough Council. In 1950, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Franklin.
In 1966, he transferred to national politics, winning the federal House of Representatives seat of Franklin after the retirement of Bill Falkinder.
He was defeated in 1969 by Labor candidate Ray Sherry, and returned to farming. Pearsall died in 2003.
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Political Party
Liberal party