George Walter Gordon Wallace (16 January 1900 - 12 October 1964) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Wallace was born in

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, the son of Charles Wallace and his wife Minnie (née Collins). He was educated at the

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and Chillagoe primary schools before joining the First Australian Imperial Force in 1916. He had put his age up by two years in order to enlist and saw action in France and Belgium with the 7th and 21st Machine Gun Companies. On his return to Australia he joined the meat industry, working in both

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and

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as a slaughterman and butcher. On 7 December 1920 Wallace married Lillian May Clark and together had one son, Walter Gordon Wallace. Lillian died in 1936Family history research
— Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 21 April 2016. and the next year Wallace married Alice May Kiefel (died 1977). He died in October 1964 and was buried in the

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in Cairns.

Public career

Wallace started out in politics as an alderman on the

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from 1949 to 1956 and a member of the Cairns Harbour Board from 1952 until 1956. At the

1956 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 19 May 1956 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its ninth continuous term in office since the 1932 election; it would be Vi ...

he won the seat of

for the Labor Party, taking over the seat from the retiring member, Thomas Crowley. He represented the electorate until his death in 1964.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, George Walter Gordon Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1900 births 1964 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 20th-century Australian politicians