Arthur Knight Wallace (25 December 1879 – 21 August 1952) was an Australian politician. He was born in Yacka to storekeeper Andrew Wallace and Eliza Hodge and grew up in the Mallee and gin

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. He served in the

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and after his return became a member of the

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. On 10 December 1908 he married Elizabeth Ahern, with whom he had two children. He lived in

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from 1910 to 1916, when he returned to

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as a carpenter. He became president of the Carpenters' Union and served on South Melbourne City Council from 1928 to 1937 (mayor 1933–34). In 1919 he won a by-election for the

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seat of Albert Park, representing the Labor Party. He was defeated in 1927 but re-elected in 1929. He supported the

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, and so left the Labor Party, retiring in 1932. Wallace died in

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in 1952.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Arthur 1879 births 1952 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly