Preceded by John McDougall Nationality Australian | Succeeded by John McNeill Name Arthur Rodgers | |
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Born 20 March 1876Geelong, Victoria ( 1876-03-20 ) Died 4 October 1936(1936-10-04) (aged 60)Melbourne, Victoria | ||
Arthur Stanislaus Rodgers (20 March 1876 – 4 October 1936) was an Australian politician.
Rodgers was born in Geelong, Victoria and educated at Xavier College, Melbourne in 1889 and 1890. He took up farming in 1894 near Horsham and later also worked part in a stock and station agency. In 1904, he married Eileen Eleanor Young.
Political career
Rodgers won the seat of Wannon as a Liberal off the Australian Labor Party incumbent, John McDougall at the 1913 election. He was appointed Assistant Minister for Repatriation in the fifth Hughes Ministry from July 1920 to December 1921. He was then moved to the trade and customs portfolio until his narrow defeat at the December 1922 election. He was considered a competent minister and he established advisory bodies to improve the quality of primary produce for export. He won Wannon back in 1925 election, but lost it in 1929 election. In 1931 election, he unsuccessfully contested the seat as a Country Party candidate.
Rodgers suffered from diabetes and died suddenly of coronary vascular disease in Melbourne in 1936, survived by his wife, a son and three daughters.