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About Clarrie Earl
- Clarence Joseph Earl (3 April 1913 – 31 July 1998) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1953 until 1973.
- He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP). Earl was born in Heddon Greta and was the son of a coal-miner.
- He was educated at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham and initially worked as a farmhand on sheep stations.
- He attended Sydney Teachers College in 1937 and 1938 and worked as a teacher between 1939 and 1940 and between 1944 and 1953.
- Between 1940 and 1944 he served with the 2nd Australian Imperial Force and was wounded at Tobruk.
- Earl was elected to parliament as the member for the new and notionally safe Labor seat of Fairfield at the 1953 state election.
- Earl retained the seat at the next 2 elections and transferred to the new and equally safe seat of Bass Hill at the 1962.
- Fairfield was successfully contested for Labor by the future Deputy Premier Jack Ferguson whose seat of Merrylands had been abolished.
- Earl retained Bass Hill until he retired from public life at the 1973 election.
- His retirement allowed the future Premier Neville Wran to transfer from the Legislative Council to an Assembly seat at the 1973 election.
- He did not hold party, parliamentary or ministerial office.
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