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Arthur Abbott (politician)

The Honourable
Arthur Abbott
Attorney-General of Western Australia
In office
5 January 1948 – 23 February 1953
Preceded by Ross McDonald
Succeeded by Emil Nulsen
Member of the Legislative Assembly
of Western Australia
In office
18 March 1939 – 25 March 1950
Preceded by James MacCallum Smith
Succeeded by Ted Needham
Constituency North Perth
In office
25 March 1950 – 7 April 1956
Preceded by None (new creation)
Succeeded by Edward Oldfield
Constituency Mount Lawley
Personal details
Born (1892-02-14)14 February 1892
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Died 10 October 1975(1975-10-10) (aged 83)
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Political party Nationalist (to 1945)
Liberal (from 1945)

Arthur Valentine Rutherford Abbott (14 February 1892 – 10 October 1975) was an Australian lawyer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1939 to 1956. He was a minister in the government of Sir Ross McLarty, including as attorney-general from 1948 to 1953.

Abbott was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, but raised in Perth, where he attended Hale School. He completed his secondary education at Melbourne Grammar School, as a boarder. Abbott enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in May 1916, and served with the Australian Field Artillery and the Australian Flying Corps, reaching the rank of lieutenant by the war's end. In 1919, he briefly studied at the Council of Legal Education in London, completing his articles of clerkship the following year.

Abbott first stood for parliament at the 1936 state election, when he unsuccessfully ran for the Nationalist Party in the seat of Mount Hawthorn. He was defeated by the sitting Labor member, Harry Millington. At the 1939 state election, Abbott won the seat of North Perth, defeating a sitting member from his own party, James MacCallum Smith. He joined the Liberal Party upon its formation in 1945, and after its victory at the 1947 election was made Chief Secretary and Minister for Fisheries in the new ministry formed by Ross McLarty.


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