Michael Thomas Leslie Quinn (23 October 1900 – 12 July 1965) was an Australian politician.

Born in Homebush

Homebush, New South Wales

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 to Irish migrants Michael Quinn and Maria Gannon, he attended Christian Brothers College in Burwood

Burwood, New South Wales

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, becoming a shop assistant. On 15 April 1932 he married Rita Munro, with whom he would have eight children. He began farming at Boomi, becoming a Boomi Shire Councillor from 1941 to 1959 (president 1952–1959) and Chairman of the Moree District

Moree, New South Wales

Moree is a large town in Moree Plains Shire in northern New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the banks of the Mehi River in the centre of the rich black-soil plains....

 Local Government Committee (1954–59). A member of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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, he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council

New South Wales Legislative Council

The New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as...

 in 1960 but immediately resigned from the party to join the Independent Labor Group

Independent Labor Group

The Independent Labor Group was a minor Australian political grouping in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1959 to 1977. The group emerged when a number of Labor Party MLCs were expelled from the party for voting against the abolition of the Legislative Council, which was then party...

, which opposed the official party policy of abolition of the Legislative Council. Quinn retired from farming in 1963 and died in Gosford

Gosford, New South Wales

Gosford is a city located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 76 km north of the Sydney central business district...

in 1965.