Frank Joseph Scott Wise AO
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Appointed: 1 July 1951 to 1 July 1956
Date of birth: 30 May 1897
Place of birth:Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Parents: Charles E Wise
Education:
- Queensland State School
- Gatton Agricultural College
Spouse:
- Elsie (née Hunter) - married 12 June 1922
- Patricia (née McCormick) - married 11 November 1944
Children: 2 sons, 5 daughters
Employment history
- 1918 to 1920 - Farmhand Roma State Farm
- 1920 to 1922 - Field Officer Queensland
- 1922 to 1923 - Assistant Agricultural Instructor Queensland
- 1923 to 1929 - WA Agricultural Advisor
- 1929 - Commonwealth Agricultural Advisor WA
- 1929 to 1933 - Advisor Tropical Agriculture WA Agriculture Department
- 1933 to 1951 - ALP Member for Gascoyne WA Legislative Assembly
- 1935 to 1939 - Minister for Agriculture, Education, Police and the North West
- 1939 to 1945 - Minister for Lands and Agriculture
- 1945 to 1947 - Premier and Treasurer of WA
- Chairman Federal Commission Post-War Rural Reconstruction
- 1948 - Australian Representative British Empire Conference
- 1951 - Appointed Administrator of the Northern Territory and Chief of Police
- 1956 - Resigned due to ill-health
Honours and awards
- 1979 - Officer of the Order of Australia in General Division (AO)
Subsequent career
- 1956 to 1967 - Member for North Province WA Legislative Council
- 1958 to 1959 - Minister for Industrial Development, Local Government and Town Planning
- 1963 to 1966 - Leader of the Opposition
- 1971 - Retired
Memorial: Frank Wise Institute Tropical Agriculture Research Kununurra