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Born in Ararat to miner John Walter Keegan and Mary Flood, he attended primary schools before becoming a miner at Wyalong.
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Tom Keegan
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Active in the miners" union and the Australian Labor Party, he moved to Sydney around 1901. In 1910 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Glebe. Keegan was elected president of the Glebe Rugby League Club, a position he would remain in until 1920.
Keegan was defeated in the election of 1920 after the introduction of proportional representation but returned to the Assembly via a casual vacancy as one of the members for Balmain.
When proportional representation was abandoned in 1927 he returned to his old seat of Glebe, serving until 1925. From May to October 1927 he served as Minister for Local Government.
Keegan died in 1937 in Sydney.
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Political Party
Australian Labor Party