Arthur Hughes (politician)

Arthur Hughes
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Hampden
In office
9 April 1927  30 November 1929
Preceded by David Oman
Succeeded by Chester Manifold
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Grenville
In office
30 August 1921  9 April 1927
Preceded by David Gibson
Succeeded by Seat abolished
Personal details
Born (1885-10-25)25 October 1885
Broomfield, Victoria
Died 1 February 1968(1968-02-01) (aged 82)
Ballarat, Victoria
Political party Australian Labor Party
Military service
Allegiance Australia
Service/branch Australian Army
Years of service 1915–1917
1940–1943
Rank Lieutenant
Battles/wars First World War
Second World War
Awards Military Cross

Arthur Hughes MC (25 October 1885 1 February 1968) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Broomfield to miner David Solomon Hughes and Esther Vickers. He was a schoolteacher in Ballarat, and during World War I served with the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt and France; wounded in 1916, he was invalided home and awarded the Military Cross. A Labor Party member, he was active in the campaign against military conscription. After the war he was a soldier settler at Newlyn, and in 1921 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Grenville. He transferred to Hampden in 1927, but was defeated in 1929. In 1932 he left the Labor Party, feeling that it was insufficiently anti-communist. Hughes died in Ballarat in 1968.[1]

References

  1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Hughes, Arthur". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
David Gibson
Member for Grenville
19211927
Abolished
Preceded by
David Oman
Member for Hampden
19271929
Succeeded by
Chester Manifold
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