Arthur Valentine Rutherford Abbott was an Australian lawyer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1939 to 1956.
11 Facts About Arthur Abbott
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Arthur Abbott was a minister in the government of Sir Ross McLarty, including as attorney-general from 1948 to 1953.
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Arthur Abbott enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in May 1916, and served with the Australian Field Artillery and the Australian Flying Corps, reaching the rank of lieutenant by the war's end.
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Arthur Abbott first stood for parliament at the 1936 state election, when he unsuccessfully ran for the Nationalist Party in the seat of Mount Hawthorn.
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Arthur Abbott was defeated by the sitting Labor member, Harry Millington.
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At the 1939 state election, Arthur Abbott won the seat of North Perth, defeating a sitting member from his own party, James MacCallum Smith.
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Arthur Abbott joined the Liberal Party upon its formation in 1945, and after its victory at the 1947 election was made Chief Secretary and Minister for Fisheries in the new ministry formed by Ross McLarty.
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Arthur Abbott held Mount Lawley until being defeated by Edward Oldfield at the 1956 election.
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Arthur Abbott was married twice, firstly to Daphne Marmion in 1918, with whom he had a son.
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Arthur Abbott was divorced in 1929, and remarried in 1934 to Olive Carlyle, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
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Arthur Abbott's first wife was a daughter of William Marmion, who was a member of parliament.