Arthur Hughes (politician)

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Arthur Hughes
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Hampden
In office
9 April 1927 – 30 November 1929
Preceded byDavid Oman
Succeeded byChester Manifold
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Grenville
In office
30 August 1921 – 9 April 1927
Preceded byDavid Gibson
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Personal details
Born(1885-10-25)25 October 1885
Broomfield, Victoria
Died1 February 1968(1968-02-01) (aged 82)
Ballarat, Victoria
Political partyLabor Party
Military service
AllegianceAustralia
Branch/serviceAustralian Army
Years of service1915–1917
1940–1943
RankLieutenant
Battles/warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsMilitary Cross

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

He was born in 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 Member for Grenville
1921–1927 		Abolished
Preceded by Member for Hampden
1927–1929 		Succeeded by
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