Arthur Wallace (politician)

Arthur Knight Wallace (25 December 1879 21 August 1952) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Yacka to storekeeper Andrew Wallace and Eliza Hodge and grew up in the Mallee and gin Gippsland. He served in the Second Boer War and after his return became a member of the Victorian Socialist Party. On 10 December 1908 he married Elizabeth Ahern, with whom he had two children. He lived in Adelaide from 1910 to 1916, when he returned to Melbourne as a carpenter. He became president of the Carpenters' Union and served on South Melbourne City Council from 1928 to 1937 (mayor 193334). In 1919 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Albert Park, representing the Labor Party. He was defeated in 1927 but re-elected in 1929. He supported the Premiers' Plan, and so left the Labor Party, retiring in 1932. Wallace died in South Melbourne in 1952.[1]

References

  1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Wallace, Arthur Knight". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
Joseph Hannan
Member for Albert Park
19191927
Succeeded by
Robert Cuthbertson
Preceded by
Robert Cuthbertson
Member for Albert Park
19291932
Succeeded by
Harry Drew
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