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Frank Joseph Scott Wise AO (
May 30 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.
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