# Horace Foley

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'''Horace John Foley''' (23 November 1900 – 3 July 1989) was an Australian medical practitioner and mayor of [Glebe](/source/Municipality_of_The_Glebe).

Foley was born at [Mudgee](/source/Mudgee%2C_New_South_Wales) to schoolteacher James Foley and Margaret Mary (''née'' English). He attended Mudgee High School before studying medicine at the [University of Sydney](/source/University_of_Sydney), from which he graduated in 1926. He practised first at [Strathfield](/source/Strathfield%2C_New_South_Wales) before moving to [Glebe](/source/Glebe%2C_New_South_Wales), where he worked for the rest of his career. He married Sarah Agnes May Farmer at St Joseph's Catholic Church in [Rockdale](/source/Rockdale%2C_New_South_Wales) on 23 November 1932.<ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last=Hogan |first=Michael |title=Foley, Horace John (1900–1989) |year=2007 |id2=foley-horace-john-12501 |volume=17 |accessdate=21 July 2011}}</ref>

Foley was a member of the [Labor Party](/source/Australian_Labor_Party_(New_South_Wales_Branch)), and supported [Premier](/source/Premier_of_New_South_Wales) [Jack Lang](/source/Jack_Lang_(Australian_politician)) in the 1930s split. He ran unsuccessfully for the state seat of [Burwood](/source/Electoral_district_of_Burwood_(New_South_Wales)) in 1932 before winning election to [Glebe Council](/source/Municipality_of_The_Glebe) in December 1934, serving as mayor in 1937 and 1938. He clashed with Lang and in December 1937 led his own group, the "Foley Labor Party", which defeated Lang's forces at the municipal elections. In 1938 he ran for the state seat of [Glebe](/source/Electoral_district_of_Glebe) for the [Industrial Labor Party](/source/Industrial_Labor_Party), which opposed Lang.<ref name=adb/>

Foley was convicted in 1938 of misusing council vehicles; he was fined and disqualified from sitting on the council. Lang's second splinter party, the [Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist)](/source/Australian_Labor_Party_(Non-Communist)) (after 1941 simply [Lang Labor](/source/Lang_Labor)), appealed to Foley's anti-[communist](/source/communist) leanings and he ran federally for [West Sydney](/source/Division_of_West_Sydney) in 1943 and 1949 and for the state seat of [King](/source/Electoral_district_of_King_(New_South_Wales)) in 1944, 1947 and 1950. He was elected to [Sydney City Council](/source/City_of_Sydney) at a [1945 by-election](/source/Phillip_Ward_(City_of_Sydney)) for [Phillip Ward](/source/Phillip_Ward_(City_of_Sydney)) and Glebe Council in [1947](/source/1947_Sydney_City_Council_election); when the two amalgamated, Foley's Lang Labor ticket defeated the official Labor group for the Glebe seats. He resigned from the council in 1950 but served again 1953&ndash;56.<ref name=adb/>

Foley rejoined the ALP in 1957 and soon gained control of the branch of Glebe North, analogous to the branch he had controlled in the 1930s. He was a councillor on [Hornsby Shire Council](/source/Hornsby_Shire) from 1962 to 1965 and served for the Glebe ward on [Leichhardt Municipal Council](/source/Municipality_of_Leichhardt) from 1968 to 1971. Remembered as a [socially conservative](/source/social_conservative) [Catholic](/source/Catholic) in a working-class community, Foley has a park named after him in Glebe. He died at [Croydon](/source/Croydon%2C_New_South_Wales) in 1989 and was buried in [Rookwood Cemetery](/source/Rookwood_Cemetery).<ref name=adb/><ref>{{cite web|title=Horace John Foley|url=http://www.sydneyaldermen.com.au/alderman/horace-foley/|website=Sydney's Aldermen|publisher=City of Sydney|accessdate=10 November 2017}}</ref> In 1964, the Sydney City Council renamed the Glebe Rest Park as the "Dr H J Foley Rest Park" in his honour.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Foley Rest Park|url=http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/learn/sydneys-history/people-and-places/park-histories/foley-rest-park|publisher=City of Sydney|accessdate=10 November 2017}}</ref>

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Category:Lang Labor politicians
Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:Politicians from Sydney
Category:20th-century Australian politicians
Category:Mayors of The Glebe
Category:Australian Labor Party councillors

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