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Fred Walsh

Australian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ21069628 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Frederick (Fred) Walsh (21 April 1893 – 29 April 1968) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seats of Thebarton from 1942 to 1956 and West Torrens from 1956 to 1965 for the Labor Party.

Editorial summary

“Fred Walsh” enters the record as australian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fred, Walsh and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1893, 1968, 1942, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-04-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fred, Walsh and Australian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Fred Walsh” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fred, Walsh and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21069628. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1968, 1942 and 1956.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Fred Walsh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.