Researching Tom Keegan
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 995 people with the Keegan surname? In that year Keegan was ranked number 2597 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Tom means "Form of THOMAS. a twin" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Tom Keegan on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Tom Keegan and the Keegan Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Tom Keegan
Tom Keegan
Tom Keegan (born March 22, 1959) is an American sportswriter and author who is sports editor of the Chesterton Tribune, a twice-weekly newspaper in Chesterton, Ind. He was a columnist at the Boston Herald until getting laid off, July 1, 2020. He was at the Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence, Kansas. While in Kansas, Keegan, members of his staff, and local TV personalities combined to do sports podcasts entitled "Spodcasters" on KUsports.com, one of the newspaper's four websites. Keegan also was one of four panelists on a weekly television show The Drive, which is broadcast during the college football and basketball seasons throughout Kansas and nationally on Fox College Sports.
Source: Tom Keegan, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Tom Keegan (politician)
Thomas Michael Keegan (29 May 1878 – 14 September 1937) was an Australian politician.
Born in Ararat, Victoria to miner John Walter Keegan and Mary Flood, he attended primary schools before becoming a miner at Wyalong. Active in the miners' union and the Labor Party, he moved to Sydney around 1901. Around 1902 he married Marie Hallan, with whom he had three children; he would remarry Doris Martin around 1927. In 1910 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for the Glebe.
Keegan was elected president of the Glebe Rugby League Club, a position he would remain in until 1920.
Keegan was defeated in the election of 1920 after the introduction of proportional representation but returned to the Assembly on 18 October 1921 as the only unsuccessful Labor candidate at the 1920 election for Balmain, filling the casual vacancy caused by the death of the Premier John Storey. When proportional representation was abandoned in 1927 he returned to his old seat of Glebe, serving until 1935. From May to October 1927 he served as Minister for Local Government. Keegan died in 1937 in Sydney.
His brother John was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1925 to 1934.
Source: Tom Keegan (politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Keegan
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