Thomas Chataway
Australian politician
Died when: 60 years 333 days (730 months)Star Sign: Aries
Thomas Drinkwater Chataway (6 April 1864 – 5 March 1925) was an English-born Australian politician.Born in Wartling, Sussex, he was educated at Charterhouse School before migrating to Australia in 1881, where he became a grazier and sugar mill-owner in New South Wales and then Queensland.
He was a leader among Queensland cane growers, sitting on Mackay Council and serving as mayor in 1904.In 1906 he was elected to the Australian Senate as an Anti-Socialist Senator for Queensland.
He joined the Commonwealth Liberal Party when it formed in 1909.Chataway was defeated in 1913, after which he became a journalist in Melbourne.
He died on 5 March 1925 (aged 60) at his home in Toorak, Victoria.
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