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Thomas John Shannon (9 December 1884 – 9 June 1954) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1927 until his death. He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party(ALP) and the Australian Labor Party (NSW).

Shannon was born in Redfern, New South Wales and was the son of a Cab Driver. He was educated to elementary level at St Benedict's, Broadway and worked as a grocer's boy and eventually as a real estate agent. He became involved with community organisations including the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society, a provider of social security insurance, and was elected as an Alderman on Sydney City Council between 1921–27 and between 1930-48. Shannon was elected to the New South Wales Parliament as the Labor member for the newly re-created seat of Surry Hills at the 1927 election. The seat was abolished by a redistribution prior to the next election and Shannon transferred to the seat of Phillip where the sitting Labor member Michael Burke had retired. He retained the seat for Labor at the next 8 elections and died as the sitting member in 1954. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (NSW) during that party's estrangement from the ALP federal executive but he did not support later manifestations of Lang Labor. Shannon did not hold party, parliamentary or ministerial office.

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