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.
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]