Richard Nash (Australian politician)

Richard Harry (Dick) Nash (2 July 1890 – 12 December 1951) was an Australian politician.

[1] Nash was born in the Melbourne suburb of Ascot Vale and moved with his family to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia in 1897.

[1][2][3][4] Nash served variously as trustee, treasurer, president and (from 1939) secretary of the Metropolitan District Council of the state Labor Party between 1917 and 1943.

He was re-elected at the 1951 election, but died suddenly in office from a heart attack in December that year and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.

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