Andrew Hughes (politician)

Andrew Arthur Hughes
Member for Caulfield in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
In office
12 June 1943 (1943-06-12) – 10 November 1945 (1945-11-10)
Preceded byHarold Cohen
Succeeded byAlexander Dennett
Personal details
Born(1902-01-21)21 January 1902
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Died1 July 1996(1996-07-01) (aged 94)
Spouses
Eleanor Wynne Morris
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(m. 1926)​
Tomoko Matsuda
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(m. 1963)​
Children5
Alma materCollege of the Bible, Glen Iris, Victoria
OccupationMissionary
ProfessionMinister

Andrew Arthur Hughes (21 January 1902 – 1 July 1996) was an Australian politician.

Born in South Yarra to brickmaker George Alfred Hughes and Eliza Smartt, Hughes attended Brighton State School and then the College of the Bible in Glen Iris. He became a minister of religion, and spent the years from February 1926[1] to 1933 as a missionary for the Church of Christ in India. On his return Hughes became a probation officer with the Children's Courts. In the 1930s he was president of the Victorian Christian Endeavour Union.[2] In 1939 he became minister of the Church of Christ in Swanston Street. In November 1941 he was elected chaplain to the Melbourne Boys' Club Association.[3] In 1946 he was president of Opportunity Clubs for Boys and Girls,[4] and of the Australia-India Association.[5]

On 12 June 1943, he was elected to the seat of Caulfield in the Victorian Legislative Assembly[6] as an Independent, serving until his defeat in 1945. He joined the Labor Party in 1946 and was preselected to contest the federal seat of Flinders in 1949, but the state executive refused to endorse his candidature and expelled him after he stood as an Independent Labor candidate. He was readmitted to the ALP in 1955 and contested the federal seat of Higgins,[7] a conservative seat held by the government minister, and future prime minister, Harold Holt. He moved to Japan in 1957 to teach and worked for Japan Council against A & H Bombs from 1958, becoming highly active in the Japanese anti-war movement.[8]

On 15 July 1926 he married Eleanor Wynne Morris, with whom he had five children: Rowland McDonald Morris 4 Nov 1927 – 5 Nov 1927, Ian Morris 9 Dec 1928, Elwynne Morris 12 Feb 1932, Gwynneth Margaret Morris 18 Apr 1936, Linley McDonald Morris 21 Sep 1943.

He married Tomoko Matsuda on 20 April 1963.

  1. ^ "Churches of Christ". The Register. 2 October 1926. p. 17. Retrieved 25 August 2018 – via Trove.
  2. ^ "Boys' Work Conference". The Age. 27 November 1939. p. 10. Retrieved 25 August 2018 – via Trove.
  3. ^ "About people". The Age. 20 November 1941. p. 4. Retrieved 25 August 2018 – via Trove.
  4. ^ "Cheap meals for scholars". The Argus. 28 November 1946. p. 2. Retrieved 25 August 2018 – via Trove.
  5. ^ "Advertising". The Argus. 21 December 1946. p. 32. Retrieved 25 August 2018 – via Trove.
  6. ^ "Victorian C.P. Back: Lab. Gains". The Courier-Mail. 14 June 1943. p. 3. Retrieved 25 August 2018 – via Trove.
  7. ^ "Advertising". The Argus (Melbourne). 8 December 1955. p. 19. Retrieved 25 August 2018 – via Trove.
  8. ^ "Hughes, Andrew Arthur". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2018.