Albert Fudge
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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| name = Albert Fudge
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| constituency_AM1 = Mackay
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 27 August 1904
| term_end1 = 18 May 1907
| predecessor1 = David Dalrymple
| successor1 = Edward Swayne
| alongside1 = Walter Paget
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1858|1|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Yeovil, Somerset, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|11|7|1858|1|30|df=y}}
| death_place = Mackay, Queensland, Australia
| restingplace = Mackay Cemetery
|birthname = Albert John Wellman Fudge
| spouse = Naomi Brown (m.1884 d.1946)
| party = Labour Party
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| occupation = Carpenter
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Albert John Wellman Fudge (30 January 1858 – 7 November 1949) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=363235761|accessdate=22 May 2016}}
Biography
Fudge was born in Yeovil, Somerset, the son of John Wellman Fudge and his wife Sarah (née Northover). He was educated in Yeovil and arrived in Queensland in 1884. He continued the craft he had learned in England as a carpenter until 1895 when he took up a selection of land at Mirani.
On 27 December 1884 he married Naomi Brown (died 1946){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171130133 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Daily Mercury |volume=80 |issue=28 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=1 February 1946 |accessdate=22 May 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} and together had three sons and three daughters. Fudge died in November 1949 and his funeral proceeded from the Central Methodist Church in Mackay to the Mackay Cemetery.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171480525 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Daily Mercury |volume=83 |issue=266 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=8 November 1949 |accessdate=22 May 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Public career
Fudge, representing the Labour Party, won one of the seats in the two-member electorate of Mackay at the 1904 Queensland state election, serving alongside Walter Paget.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172463585 |title=GENERAL ELECTIONS. |newspaper=Mackay Mercury |volume=97 |issue=67 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=30 August 1904 |accessdate=22 May 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} He did not stand at the following state election held in 1907.
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland