Wallace Rae
Politician, Deceased Person
1913 – 2006
Who was Wallace Rae?
Sir Wallace "Wally" Alexander Ramsay Rae was a member of the Queensland Parliament and served in various State Government ministries. Rae worked as a stock and station agent before serving as a bomber pilot in World War II. After the war, he brought a property located between Blackall and Isisford.
He entered the Queensland Parliament sitting as a member of the Country Party in 1956. During his long career in Parliament, he held several ministerial positions including Minister for Local Government and Electricity and Minister for Lands and Forestry. He was later appointed Queensland'a Agent-General in London.
In the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1976, he was made a knight bachelor.
He died in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, on 18 March 2006.
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- Born
- Mar 31, 1913
- Also known as
- Wallace "Wally" Alexander Ramsay Rae
- Wallace Alexander Ramsay Rae
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 18, 2006
Port Macquarie
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on July 23, 2013
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