Frank Wise

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honorific-prefix = The Hon
name = Frank Wise
honorific-suffix = AO


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order = 16th
office = Premier of Western Australia
term_start = 31 July 1945
term_end = 1 April 1947
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predecessor = John Willcock
successor = Sir Ross McLarty
constituency = Gascoyne
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birth_place = Ipswich, Queensland Australia
death_date = 1986
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party = Australian Labor Party
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Frank Joseph Scott Wise AO (30 May 1897 – 1986) was an Australian Labor Party politician and the sixteenth Premier of Western Australia. He took office on 31 July 1945 in the closing stages of the Second World War, following the resignation of his predecessor due to ill health. He lost the following election two years later to the Liberal Party after Labor had held office for fourteen years previously.

Wise was a farmer for several years in Queensland before working in the Department of Agriculture in that state. He later moved to Western Australia as a technical adviser in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture and in 1928 was commissioned to report and advise on tropical agriculture in the Northern Territory and the North West of Western Australia.

In the 1933 state election which saw future Premiers Albert Hawke and John Tonkin also win seats, Wise successfully contested the seat of Gascoyne (now merged into Murchison-Eyre) in the state's lower house for the Labor Party. In 1936 he moved to the front bench as Minister for Agriculture and the North-West.

For reasons of ill health, John Willcock resigned his premiership on 31 July 1945 and Wise was elected into the position. Wise held the position for only two years until the 1947 election when his party lost to the Liberals headed by Sir Ross McLarty.

He was Leader of the Opposition for the next four years before taking up the position of Administrator of the Northern Territory and President of the Northern Territory Legislative Council (now replaced with the unicameral Northern Territory Legislative Assembly).

In 1942, botanist Charles Gardner named the Australian shrub "Acacia wiseana" in his honour.

References

*cite web | url=http://www.ccentre.wa.gov.au/index.cfm?event=premiersFrankwise | title=Frank Joseph Scott Wise (Australian Labor Party) | work=Constitutional centre for Western Australia | accessdate=2007-02-23

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NAME=Wise, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Wise, Francis Joseph Scott
SHORT DESCRIPTION=politician
DATE OF BIRTH=May 30 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH=Ipswich, Queensland
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