Tom Gilmore | |
Constituency Mp: | Leichhardt |
Parliament: | Australian |
Predecessor: | New seat |
Successor: | Harry Bruce |
Term Start: | 10 December 1949 |
Term End: | 28 April 1951 |
Constituency Am1: | Tablelands |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 3 August 1957 |
Term End1: | 1 June 1963 |
Predecessor1: | Harold Collins |
Successor1: | Edwin Wallis-Smith |
Birth Date: | 1908 5, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Wolfram, Queensland, Australia |
Death Place: | Queensland, Australia |
Birthname: | Thomas Vernon Gilmore |
Nationality: | Australian |
Spouse: | Anne Campbell MacDonald |
Party: | Country Party |
Occupation: | Tobacco grower |
Relations: | Tom Gilmore Jr. (son) |
Thomas Vernon Gilmore Sr. (7 May 1908 - 14 November 1994) was an Australian politician.
Born in Wolfram, Queensland, he was educated at state schools before becoming a sugarcane and tobacco grower at Babinda. He served in the military 1942–47.[1]
In 1949, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Country Party member for the new seat of Leichhardt, notionally held by Labor.[2] He was defeated by the Labor candidate in 1951 and, after a stint in the Parliament of Queensland as the member for Tablelands (1957–1963)[3] retired to become a grazier and cattle-breeder.
Gilmore died in 1994 at the age of 86.[2]