Profile
Arthur Fuller
Australian Politician
Male
Born
Oct 24, 1893
Hometown
Australia
Died
Mar 21, 1987
Political Party
Australian Labor ...
Nationality
Australian
Arthur Nieberding Fuller was a long serving member of the Australian House of Representatives. Born in Gundagai to a goldminer and his wife, Fuller spent his childhood in the New South Wales goldfields. He later managed a clothing store in Cobar before… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1893
Birth
Born on October 24, 1893.
TWENTIES
1919
25 Years Old
Born in Gundagai to a goldminer and his wife, Fuller spent his childhood in the New South Wales goldfields. He later managed a clothing store in Cobar before moving to Tumut in 1919 to open a clothing store of his own.
1921
27 Years Old
In 1921, Fuller met and married Vera Hoad, with whom he would have two daughters, and established a Labor Party branch in Tumut (for which he served as secretary until 1971).
FORTIES
1940
46 Years Old
With his wife as his campaign manager, Fuller first contested the Division of Hume at the 1940 election as the official Labor candidate but lost to Tom Collins, the sitting Country Party member, due partly to candidates from the Lang Labor and New South Wales Labor factions standing and splitting the Labor vote.
1943
49 Years Old
Fuller successfully contested Hume at the 1943 election as part of the Curtin Labor landslide.
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FIFTIES
1944
50 Years Old
However, Fuller was not adverse to criticising Labor policy when it detrimentally affected his constituents, such as in April 1944 when he accused Labor leaders of stifling the economic development of the New South Wales Riverina district (which encompassed Hume).
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1946
52 Years Old
Following his successful re-election in 1946, Fuller was given the official job of Government Whip and the unofficial job of chief heckler of opposition speakers, particularly Jack Lang.
1949
55 Years Old
Fuller lost to his Country Party opponent Charles Anderson by 767 votes at the 1949 election following a campaign by the Country Party linking Fuller to the Communist menace.
1951
57 Years Old
In 1951, Fuller regained Hume by 796 votes but lost it to Anderson again by 1715 votes in 1955 before regaining it again from Anderson by 704 votes at the 1961 election.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1963
69 Years Old
By the 1963 election Fuller, in failing health, no longer had to face his old opponent Anderson but had lost much of his support base, with longtime supporter The Tumut and Adelong Times urging a vote against "our grand old man of politics".
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1987
93 Years Old
Died on March 21, 1987.
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