Harry Bruce (politician)

Harry Bruce
Member of the Australian Parliament for Leichhardt
In office 28 April 1951 – 11 October 1958
Preceded by	Tom Gilmore
Succeeded by	Bill Fulton
Personal details
Born	(1884-05-16)16 May 1884 Wandiligong, Victoria
Died	11 October 1958(1958-10-11) (aged 74)
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Occupation	Sugar grower

Henry Adam "Harry" Bruce (16 May 1884 – 11 October 1958) was an Australian politician, firstly for Queensland and later for the Parliament of Australia.

Biography

Born in Wandiligong, Victoria, he was educated at Haileybury College in Melbourne before moving to Queensland to become a bushworker in 1902. Later, he was a sugar grower and an organiser of the Australian Workers' Union.

In 1923 Bruce was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for the district of Kennedy.^[1] In 1932, he was elected to the The Tableland. In that year he was appointed Secretary of Public Works; in 1938 he was also made Secretary of Public Instruction, a position he held until 1941. In 1947 he was transferred from Public Works to Public Instruction.^[1] During this time, the Bruce Highway was named in his honour.

Bruce left the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1950,^[1] and the following year was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Leichhardt. Bruce died in 1958 close to the federal elections of that year, and so no by-election was held to replace him.^[2]

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