Stanislaus Wyatt (3 April 1894 – 26 July 1964) was an Australian politician and a member of the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

from 1950 until his death in 1964. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP). Wyatt was born in

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and was the son of a labourer. He was educated in Maitland and worked as a clerk with the New South Wales Government Railways before becoming an official of the

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. He served in the First Australian Imperial Force and was wounded twice in Belgium. Wyatt was a member of the socialization units of the ALP and was expelled from the party in 1938. However, he was reinstated in the 1940s and was elected to the parliament as the Labor member for Lakemba at the

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. He defeated the incumbent Independent Labor member Fred Stanley. Stanley had been expelled from the party and dis-endorsed for breaking caucus solidarity during an indirect election of the Legislative Council. Wyatt retained the seat for the Labor Party at the next 4 elections and was in office at the time of his death. Wyatt was the party whip between 1959 and 1964 but did not hold any other party, parliamentary or ministerial office.

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1894 births 1964 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub