Jim McCabe (politician) explained

Jim McCabe
Constituency Am:Lowan
Assembly:Victorian Legislative
Term Start:27 June 1964
Term End:28 April 1967
Predecessor:Wilfred Mibus
Successor:Ray Buckley
Term Start1:30 May 1970
Term End1:4 May 1979
Predecessor1:Ray Buckley
Successor1:Bill McGrath
Birth Date:1922 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Nhill, Victoria
Birthname:James Edmund McCabe
Nationality:Australian
Party:Liberal Party
Otherparty:Liberal and Country Party
Occupation:Stock and station agent, butcher, farmer
Allegiance:Australia
Branch:Australian Army
Serviceyears:1940–1946
Rank:Corporal

James Edmund McCabe (7 October 1922 – 24 January 2019) was an Australian politician.

Early life

He was born in Nhill to farmer Roy Clifton McCabe and schoolteacher Margaret Maud Renkin, and was educated at local state schools. He became a stock and station agent, and also worked as a butcher at Dimboola before becoming a farmer at Gerung Gerung. During World War II he served with the Australian Imperial Force in the Middle East and Borneo, and on 26 February 1947 he married Florence Hope Eastick, with whom he had four children. A member of the Liberal Party, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1964 as the member for Lowan. Defeated in 1967, he was returned in 1970 and held the seat until his defeat in 1979.[1] He died in January 2019 at the age of 96.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parliament of Victoria . Parliament of Victoria . McCabe, James Edmund . re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851 . Parliament of Victoria . 2001 . 8 November 2015.
  2. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/james-mccabe-obituary?pid=191358648 JAMES McCABE Obituary