Bill Fogarty

William Francis "Bill" Fogarty was an Australian politician.
Fogarty was born in Kingsville, and served in the Royal [Australian Navy] from 1940 to 1946 as a signalman. From 1946 to 1954 he was a metalworker, subsequently working as an official in the Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Employees' Union from 1954 to 1972; he was federal secretary from 1965 to 1973. On 9 June 1945 he married Olive Mildred McIntosh; they had two children. From 1960 to 1972 he was a Footscray City Councillor, serving as mayor from 1963 to 1964.
In 1973 Fogarty was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Australian [Labor Party (Victorian Branch)|Labor] member for Sunshine, where he became the parliamentary spokesman on agriculture until 1982. He retired from politics in 1988 and died in Spotswood in 2001.