Parliamentary Service |
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Labor
Joined party
1920
Delegate from WA Tobacco and Cigar Union to triennial conference
1935 |
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8 April 1933 |
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Gascoyne; North |
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Electorates
- MLA Gascoyne, 8 April 1933–9 July 1951 (resigned)
- MLC North Province, 22 September 1956 (by-election)–21 May 1971
Office
- Premier, 1945–1947
- Leader of the Opposition, 1947–1951
- Minister for Agriculture, The North-West (until 15 July 1936), Education (from 15 July 1936), and Police (from 15 July 1936–24 March 1937) 26 March 1935–18 April 1939; for Lands and Agriculture 18 April 1939–31 July 1945
- Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Lands (until 3 August 1945) 31 July 1945–1 April 1947
- Leader of the Opposition, 1 April 1947–26 June 1951
- Minister for Industrial Development, Local Government and Town Planning 13 November 1958–2 April 1959
- Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, 25 July 1962–30 June 1966
Committees
- Chairman, Select Committee on the Land Sales Control Act 1948
- Chairman, Joint Select Committee on the Kauri Timber Co Ltd Agreement Bill 1950
- Chairman, Joint Select Committee on Alternative Sites for the Erection of Public Buildings 1939–1940
- Member, Select Committee on the Purchasers’ Protection Bill 1933
- Member, Select Committee on the Rural Relief Fund Act Amendment Bill 1937
- Member, Select Committee on School Bus Contracts and Routes 1957
Royal Commissions
- Member, Joint Hon Royal Commission on the Electoral Act 1934–1935
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and other Conferences
- Represented WA branch Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at General Conference, Canberra, 1970
- Represented WA branch Environmental Protection Authority at Conference, London 1948
Historical Notes
- Only person in WA to lead a major political party in both the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council
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Personal Information |
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30 May 1897 |
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Ipswich, Queensland, Australia |
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29 June 1986 |
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Cottesloe, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia.
Section MC, garden GD, position 0001 |
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Son of Charles Edward Wise, storekeeper, and Emily Gertrude Gordon |
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Married (1) 21 June 1922, St John’s Church, Cairns, Queensland to Elsie Dorothy Hunter (born circa 1898 and died 9 September 1943), daughter of Ernest Charles James Hunter and Esther Braithwaite
Children: one son and two daughters
Widowed 9 September 1943
Married (2) 11 November 1944, Christ Church, Claremont, WA to Patricia McCormick (died 13 September 1998), nurse, daughter of Arthur St Patrick Creed and Mary Ethelwyn Swift
Children: one son and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated Woodford State School to the age of 12 years then Gatton Agricultural College where he matriculated
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Agriculture adviser |
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Cultivated tropical fruits in Queensland, 1913–1917
Joined Queensland Department of Agriculture May 1917
Farm hand, Roma State farm, 1918, then stationed in Brisbane Field officer, 1920–1922
Assistant instructor, Agriculture, 1922; also in north of Tasmania
Agricultural adviser, WA Department of Agriculture, 1923–1924
Worked on peanut-growing project, in Kimberley area outside Derby
Farmed privately at Gympie, Queensland, 1924–1928
Special Commissioner to North Australian Commission reporting on agriculture in Northern Territory and North West of WA, 1928–1929
Returned to WA as tropical adviser on agricultural development in North West, 1929–1933, contributing to the establishment of the banana industry at Carnarvon
Chairman, Rural Reconstruction Commission, 1943–1946
Administrator, Northern Territory, July 1951–30 June 1956 |
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Appointed Officer of the Order of Australian (AO) 1979 |
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Living at Tolga, June 1922 |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds. Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth 2010 , p. 283-284.
Daily News, 27 November 1970.
Labor Voice, 13 April 1982.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 28 September 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=1f24d33b-ee1c-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf
Reid and Oliver.
Sunday Times, 3 July and 4 September 1966.
Tom’s Weekly, 25 January 1971.
West Australian, 10 April 1933, 27 June 1951, 12 November 1958, 6 April 1966, 27 November 1970, 2 April 1976, 26 January 1979, 5 April and 18 June 1981.
Western Mail, 25 June 1983.
Who's Who in Australia, (1971) |
Bibliography |
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G. C. Bolton, 'Wise, Frank Joseph Scott (1897–1986)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wise-frank-joseph-scott-15616/text26819, published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 14 December 2015. |