Arthur Clinton Morgan (1881 – 2 August 1957) was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the

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from 1929 to 1931, representing the electorate of

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. Morgan was born at

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, son of

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Sir Arthur Morgan and grandson of Queensland colonial MP James Morgan. He received a state school education at Warwick and was attached to the staff of the state ''Hansard'' and the state parliament for several years until 1904 before going to work for his family's newspaper, the ''Warwick Argus'', as an apprentice journalist and then a sub-editor from 1910 to 1914, after which his family sold the newspaper. He served a term as a Town of Warwick councillor and was an unsuccessful Kidstonite candidate for the Legislative Assembly in 1908. Morgan enlisted for service in

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on 7 February 1915 and embarked with the

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reinforcements on 2 June 1915. He served in the Gallipoli campaign and in Palestine before being invalided home in early 1917. After the war, he returned to journalism, initially as associate editor of the '' Daily Mail'' in

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from 1918 to 1921, then as editor of the new ''Graziers' Review'' from 1921 to 1927, and finally as editor of the ''Brisbane Sun'' from 1927 until his election to parliament. In 1929, Morgan was elected to the

as the

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member for

, defeating sitting member

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, who was running as an

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. He was a member of the Select Committee on the Tobacco Industry from 1923 to 1930. He held the seat until his defeat by Groom, again running as an independent, in 1931. He was touted as a potential candidate for seats in the early-to-mid-1930s, but this did nor occur. Morgan died in 1957. He married Anna Hobbs in 1907; they had two sons and two daughters.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Arthur Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Darling Downs Members of the Australian House of Representatives 1881 births 1957 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians