Arthur Morgan (Australian politician, born 1881)

This article is about the Member of the Australian Parliament. For his father, the Premier of Queensland, see Arthur Morgan (Queensland politician). For other persons of the same name, see Arthur Morgan.

Arthur Morgan
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Darling Downs
In office
12 October 1929 – 19 December 1931
Preceded byLittleton Groom
Succeeded byLittleton Groom
Personal details
Born1881
Warwick, Queensland
Died2 August 1957 (aged 75–76)
NationalityAustralian
Political partyNationalist Party of Australia
RelationsArthur Morgan (father) James Morgan (grandfather)
OccupationAssociate editor

Arthur Clinton Morgan (1881 – 2 August 1957) was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1929 to 1931, representing the electorate of Darling Downs.

Morgan was born at Warwick, son of Premier of Queensland Sir Arthur Morgan and grandson of Queensland colonial MP James Morgan. He received a state school education at Warwick and was attached to the staff of the state Hansard and the state parliament for several years until c. 1904 before going to work for his family's newspaper, the Warwick Argus, as an apprentice journalist and then a sub-editor from 1910 to 1914, after which his family sold the newspaper. He served a term as a Town of Warwick councillor and was an unsuccessful Kidstonite candidate for the Legislative Assembly in 1908.

Morgan enlisted for service in World War I on 7 February 1915 and embarked with the 11th Light Horse Regiment reinforcements on 2 June 1915. He served in the Gallipoli campaign and in Palestine before being invalided home in early 1917. After the war, he returned to journalism, initially as associate editor of the Daily Mail in Brisbane from 1918 to 1921, then as editor of the new Graziers' Review from 1921 to 1927, and finally as editor of the Brisbane Sun from 1927 until his election to parliament.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

In 1929, Morgan was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Nationalist member for Darling Downs, defeating sitting member Littleton Groom, who was running as an independent. He was a member of the Select Committee on the Tobacco Industry from 1923 to 1930. He held the seat until his defeat by Groom, again running as an independent, in 1931.[7][5]

He was touted as a potential candidate for seats in the early-to-mid-1930s, but this did nor occur.[8][9] Morgan died in 1957.[7]

He married Anna Hobbs in 1907; they had two sons and two daughters.[5]

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  2. ^ "IN THE PACIFIC". Daily Mercury. Queensland, Australia. 17 September 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 6 March 2020 – via Trove.
  3. ^ "Clinton Arthur MORGAN". Australian Defence Force Academy. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  4. ^ "PERSONAL". Toowoomba Chronicle. Queensland, Australia. 26 March 1917. p. 3. Retrieved 6 March 2020 – via Trove.
  5. ^ a b c Rydon, Joan (1975). A Bibliographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament 1901-1972 (PDF). Australian National University Press. p. 161.
  6. ^ "SOCIAL GOSSIP". The Queenslander. Queensland, Australia. 7 May 1904. p. 9. Retrieved 6 March 2020 – via Trove.
  7. ^ a b Carr, Adam (2008). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
  8. ^ "A. C. MORGAN FOR STANLEY". Warwick Daily News. Queensland, Australia. 27 October 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 6 March 2020 – via Trove.
  9. ^ "DOWNS PLEBISCITE". The Telegraph. Queensland, Australia. 18 April 1934. p. 8 (CITY FINAL LAST MINUTE NEWS). Retrieved 6 March 2020 – via Trove.