Title Biography for THOMPSON, Albert Victor
Database Biographies
Date 17-05-2023 08:34 AM
Source Parliamentary Library
Current member No
State SA
Electorate Port Adelaide
System Id handbook/allmps/KVT

THOMPSON, Albert VictorBiography for THOMPSON, Albert Victor

Member for Port Adelaide (SA)

Australian Labor Party


Parliamentary Service

State: Elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for Port Adelaide, 1930.

Federal: Elected to the House of Representatives for Hindmarsh, South Australia, 1946. Elected to the House of Representatives for Port Adelaide, South Australia, 1949, following electoral redistribution. Re-elected 1951 and 1954, 1955, 1958 and 1961. Retired prior to general elections 1963.


Parliamentary Positions

Temporary Chairman of Committees from 2.3.1950 to 21.4.1954.


Committee Service

House of Representatives Select: Address in Reply served from 1.9.1948 to 2.9.1948

Joint Statutory: Public Accounts served from 25.9.1952 to 21.2.1956; Public Accounts served as Deputy Chair from 22.2.1956 to 1.11.1963


Conferences, Delegations and Visits

Member, Australian Delegation to 50th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Brussels, 1961.


Personal

Born: 14.11.1886, Rosewater, Australia

Died: 13.1.1966

Gender: Male


State/Territory Government Service

Elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for Port Adelaide, 1930. .

Elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for Semaphore, 1938. Resigned 19.8.1946 to contest the House of Representatives division of Hindmarsh, South Australia.