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Jun 01, 1922 Died on 13 Jul 2001 (aged 79)
Australian politician
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About Bill Fogarty
- William Francis "Bill" Fogarty (1 June 1922 – 13 July 2001) was an Australian politician. He was born in Kingsville, and served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1940 to 1946 as a signalman.
- From 1946 to 1954 he was a metalworker, subsequently working as an official in the Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Employees' Union from 1954 to 1972; he was federal secretary from 1965 to 1973.
- On 9 June 1945 he married Olive Mildred McIntosh; they had two children.
- From 1960 to 1972 he was a Footscray City Councillor, serving as mayor from 1963 to 1964.
- In 1973 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Sunshine, where he became the parliamentary spokesman on agriculture until 1982.
- He retired from politics in 1988 and died in Spotswood in 2001.
