Tom Young (trade unionist)

Tom Young

William Thomas Young (27 April 1870 – 20 September 1953) was a New Zealand seaman and trade unionist.

Biography

Young was born in Karori, Wellington, New Zealand in 1870. He married Margaret Anne Craig in 1906.[1]

He stood in the 1908 election as an independent Labour candidate in the Wellington Suburbs electorate and was defeated in the first ballot.[2] He stood in the 1911 election for the original Labour Party in the Wellington Central electorate and was again defeated in the first ballot.[3] In 1918 he was nominated by the Painters Union for the Labour nomination in the Wellington South by-election, but was defeated by Bob Semple.[4]

Young was a Labour Party candidate in several Wellington municipal elections in 1905, 1907, 1913, 1915, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1927.

He died at Karori, Wellington.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Atkinson, Neill. "William Thomas Young". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  2. ^ Mansfield, F. W. (1909). The General Election, 1908. National Library. pp. 31f. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  3. ^ Mansfield, F. W. (1912). The General Election, 1911. National Library. p. 7. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  4. ^ "By-election". New Zealand Times. Vol. XLIII, no. 10147. 9 December 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 18 January 2018.


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