Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Thomas Francis Doyle | |
Order: | Member of the Legislative Council |
Term Start: | 9 March 1936 |
Term End: | 8 March 1950 |
Appointed: | Michael Joseph Savage |
Birth Date: | 1893 |
Birth Place: | Bluff, New Zealand |
Death Place: | Invercargill, New Zealand |
Party: | Labour Party |
Thomas Francis Doyle (1893–1968) was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1936 to 1950.
Doyle was born in 1893. He was Mayor of Bluff for 14 years.[1] He stood for the Labour Party in the in the electorate[2] and came second to James Hargest.[3]
Doyle was a member of the Legislative Council from 9 March 1936 to 8 March 1943, and then 9 March 1943 to 8 March 1950. He was appointed by the First Labour Government. In 1944, he was appointed to the inaugural Invercargill Licensing Trust board.[4]
Following the abolition of the Legislative Council he stood again for the House of Representatives in the in the electorate where he raised the Labour vote, but finished runner-up to Ralph Hanan. He intended to run again in, but withdrew in favour of Hanan's former batman, Oliver James Henderson.[5]