Watty Wallace

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Watty Wallace
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Cairns
In office
19 May 1956 –12 October 1964
Preceded by Thomas Crowley
Succeeded by Ray Jones
Personal details
Born
George Walter Gordon Wallace

(1900-01-16)16 January 1900
Queensland, Australia
Died12 October 1964(1964-10-12) (aged 64)
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Political party Labor
Spouse(s)Lilian May Clark (m.1920 d.1936), Alice May Kiefel (m.1937 d.1977)
ChildrenWalter Gordon Wallace (b.1921 d.2020)
OccupationMeatworker

George Walter Gordon Wallace (16 January 1900 - 12 October 1964) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. [1]

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Biography

Wallace was born in Queensland, the son of Charles Wallace and his wife Minnie (née Collins). He was educated at the Mareeba 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. [1] On his return to Australia he joined the meat industry, working in both Cairns and Gordonvale as a slaughterman and butcher. [1]

On 7 December 1920 Wallace married Lillian May Clark and together had one son, Walter Gordon Wallace. [1] Lillian died in 1936 [2] and the next year Wallace married Alice May Kiefel [1] (died 1977). [2] He died in October 1964 and was buried in the Martyn Street Cemetery in Cairns.

Public career

Wallace started out in politics as an alderman on the Cairns City Council from 1949 to 1956 and a member of the Cairns Harbour Board from 1952 until 1956. At the 1956 Queensland state election he won the seat of Cairns for the Labor Party, taking over the seat from the retiring member, Thomas Crowley. He represented the electorate until his death in 1964.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 Family history research Archived 17 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by
Thomas Crowley 		Member for Cairns
1956–1964		Succeeded by
Ray Jones
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