Frank Wise
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia | |
| In office 8 April 1933 – 9 July 1951 | |
| Preceded by | Edward Angelo |
| Succeeded by | Noel Butcher |
| Constituency | Gascoyne |
| Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia | |
| In office 22 September 1956 – 21 May 1971 | |
| Preceded by | Don Barker |
| Succeeded by | Bill Withers |
| Constituency | North Province |
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| Born | Frank Joseph Scott Wise 30 May 1897 Labor |
Frank Joseph Scott Wise
Liberal Party
after Labor had held office for fourteen years previously.
Wise was a farmer for several years in Queensland before working in the Department of Agriculture in that state. He later moved to
Western Australian Department of Agriculture and in 1928 was commissioned to report and advise on tropical agriculture in the Northern Territory
and the North West of Western Australia.
In the
Albert Hawke and John Tonkin also win seats, Wise successfully contested the seat of Gascoyne (now merged into Murchison-Eyre
) in the state's lower house for the Labor Party. In 1936 he moved to the front bench as Minister for Agriculture and the North-West.
For reasons of ill health, John Willcock resigned his premiership on 31 July 1945 and Wise was elected into the position. Wise held the position for only two years until the 1947 election when his party lost to the Liberals headed by Sir Ross McLarty.
He was
unicameral Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
).
In 1942, botanist Charles Gardner named the Australian shrub Acacia wiseana in his honour.
In the 1979 Australia Day honours list, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to politics.[1]
References
- "Frank Joseph Scott Wise (Australian Labor Party)". Constitutional centre for Western Australia. Retrieved 23 February 2007.
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