Arthur Hughes (politician)

Arthur Hughes
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Hampden
In office 9 April 1927 – 30 November 1929
Preceded by	David Oman
Succeeded by	Chester Manifold
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Grenville
In office 30 August 1921 – 9 April 1927
Preceded by	David Gibson
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	(1885-10-25)25 October 1885 Broomfield, Victoria
Died	1 February 1968(1968-02-01) (aged 82) Ballarat, Victoria
Political party	Labor Party
Military service
Allegiance	Australia
Branch/service	Australian Army
Years of service	1915–1917 1940–1943
Rank	Lieutenant
Battles/wars	First World War Second World War
Awards	Military Cross

Arthur Hughes MC (25 October 1885 – 1 February 1968) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Broomfield to miner David Solomon Hughes and Esther Vickers. He was a schoolteacher in Ballarat, and during World War I served with the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt and France; wounded in 1916, he was invalided home and awarded the Military Cross. A Labor Party member, he was active in the campaign against military conscription. After the war, he was a soldier settler at Newlyn, and in 1921 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Grenville. He transferred to Hampden in 1927, but was defeated in 1929. In 1932, he left the Labor Party, feeling that it was insufficiently anti-communist. Hughes died in Ballarat in 1968.