Preceded by David Oman Preceded by David Gibson Political party Australian Labor Party Party Australian Labor Party Rank Lieutenant Battles and wars World War I, World War II | Succeeded by Chester Manifold Succeeded by Seat abolished Allegiance Australia Award Military Cross Service/branch Australian Army | |
Born 25 October 1885
Broomfield, Victoria ( 1885-10-25 ) Died 1 February 1968, Ballarat, Australia | ||
Arthur Hughes MC (25 October 1885 – 1 February 1968) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Broomfield to miner David Solomon Hughes and Esther Vickers. He was a schoolteacher in Ballarat, and during World War I served with the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt and France; wounded in 1916, he was invalided home and awarded the Military Cross. A Labor Party member, he was active in the campaign against military conscription. After the war he was a soldier settler at Newlyn, and in 1921 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Grenville. He transferred to Hampden in 1927, but was defeated in 1929. In 1932 he left the Labor Party, feeling that it was insufficiently anti-communist. Hughes died in Ballarat in 1968.