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Joseph McGrath (Australian politician)

Australian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ6285464 ↗
Source-derived summary

Joseph William McGrath (1886 – 16 March 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1934 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Darwin. He was re-elected in 1937 but died at Burnie before parliament resumed.

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

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1937, 1934—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Joseph, McGrath and Australian.
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Why this record matters

“Joseph McGrath (Australian politician)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Joseph, McGrath and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6285464. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1886, 1937 and 1934.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joseph McGrath (Australian 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.