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Harry McLoughlin (politician)

Australian politician (1911-1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ16013041 ↗
Source-derived summary

Henry Joseph McLoughlin (27 August 1911 – 18 February 1993) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Hobart. In 1959 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Denison. He served as a minister from 1961 to 1969, when he was defeated.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Harry McLoughlin (politician)” is australian politician (1911-1993). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Harry, McLoughlin and politician, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 1993, 1959, 1961—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-08-27. For this dossier, Harry, McLoughlin and politician is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “australian politician (1911-1993)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16013041. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1911, 1993, 1959 and 1961.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Harry McLoughlin (politician)” 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.