Monte Vale

Roy Mountford "Monte" Vale (12 September 1912 10 September 1977) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Foster to schoolteacher William Mountford Vale and Flora Ethel Reddick. He attended state schools before studying at Melbourne Teachers' College and becoming a teacher from 1934. In 1949 he became seriously ill and lost a leg to amputation. He then worked as a laboratory assistant for Australian Paper Manufacturers. He was a member of a political family; his great grandfather William Vale and his great grand-uncle Richard Vale were both members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. A Liberal Party member, Vale was a member of Diamond Valley Shire Council from 1964 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1973, serving as president from 1971 to 1972. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1967 as the member for Greensborough. Defeated in 1970, he was re-elected in 1973, but this election was declared void and he was elected again in a by-election later that year. Vale died at Heidelberg in 1977. His son Roger Vale was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.[1]

References

  1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Vale, Roy Mountford ('Monte')". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
New seat Member for Greensborough
19671970
Succeeded by
Bob Fell
Preceded by
Bob Fell
Member for Greensborough
1973; 19731977
Succeeded by
Pauline Toner
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