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Bert Hoare
Senator for South Australia
In office
16 December 1922 – 30 June 1935
Preceded byEdward Vardon
Personal details
Born(1874-11-22)22 November 1874
Alberton, South Australia
Died25 January 1962(1962-01-25) (aged 87)
Adelaide, South Australia
Political partyLabor
SpouseIda Mary Hancock
OccupationLabourer

Albert Alfred Hoare (22 November 1874 – 25 January 1962) was a South Australian politician.

Born in

Port Adelaide and Mount Barker state schools. He worked as a farm labourer at Boolcunda East, near Quorn for sixteen years, and worked as shearer for 20 years.[1] He was employed, perhaps as a storeman, at the Government workshops in Glanville, before running his own dairy farm. He returned to government service at the Islington Railway Workshops of the South Australian Railways.[2][3]

In 1921 he contested the

Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council, serving until 1956.[5]

He was a prominent member of the Australian Natives' Association, a member of the Labor Party's Port Adelaide electorate committee and President of the Port Adelaide Workers' Educational Association.

Politically he was a labour moderate, opposing conscription for overseas military service in World War I and post-war labour militancy, and advocating for closer settlement through the breaking up of larger agricultural estates. A protectionist during the Depression era, he supported immigration from Britain and northwestern Europe (and thus the White Australia policy), but not at the cost of Australian jobs.[6]

Family

Bert married Ida Mary Hancock on 19 April 1913;[7] they had eight children,[6] and lived at Hodgeman Road, Pennington, then 19 Torrens Road, Alberton.

References

  1. The Mail
    . 1 November 1947. p. 6. Retrieved 28 November 2014 – via Trove.
  2. Daily Herald
    . 6 January 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 28 November 2014 – via Trove.
  3. John Cooke, Tom Gluyas and Ern Klauer
    .
  4. ^ Hopgood, Don. "HOARE, Albert Alfred (1874–1962) Senator for South Australia, 1922–35". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Albert Alfred Hoare". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  6. ^ a b HOARE, Albert Alfred (1874–1962), The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Family Notices". The Advertiser. 18 April 1953. p. 24. Retrieved 28 November 2014 – via Trove.


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