Frank Troy | |
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Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia | |
In office 1 November 1911 – 13 February 1917 | |
Preceded by | Timothy Quinlan |
Succeeded by | Bertie Johnston |
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia | |
In office 24 June 1904 – 18 March 1939 | |
Preceded by | Frank Wallace |
Succeeded by | Lucien Triat |
Constituency | Mount Magnet |
Personal details | |
Born | Pimlico, New South Wales, Australia | 13 October 1877
Died | 7 January 1953 Mount Lawley, Western Australia | (aged 75)
Political party | Labor |
Michael Francis "Frank" Troy (13 October 1877 – 7 January 1953) was an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1904 to 1939. A member of the Labor Party, he was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1911 to 1917, the first from that party to hold the position. Later in his career, Troy spent long periods as a frontbencher, serving as a minister in the first and second Collier governments, and then in the Willcock government (where he was deputy premier). After leaving parliament, he served as Agent-General for Western Australia from 1939 to 1947.