Bert Lacey
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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| name = Bert Lacey
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| title = Senator for Tasmania
| term_start = 1 July 1965
| term_end = 30 June 1971
| constituency_AM1 = Denison
| assembly1 = Tasmanian House of
| term_start1 = 27 January 1959
| term_end1 = 2 May 1959
| predecessor1 = Alfred White
| birthname = Robert Herbert Lacey
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| birth_place = Maryborough, Victoria
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1984|11|2|1900|1|12}}
| death_place = Dynnyrne, Tasmania, Australia
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| party = Labor
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Robert Herbert "Bert" Lacey (12 January 1900 – 2 November 1984) was an Australian politician.
Life and career
Born in Maryborough, Victoria, Lacey was educated at state schools and then at Wendouree Agricultural College in Ballarat. He became a construction worker, bush worker and miner, and served in the military in 1918. Having moved to Tasmania, he was an organiser of the state's Australian Workers' Union 1938–1946 and Secretary of the Tasmanian Labor Party 1947–1965.
In January 1959, he was elected in a countback as Labor member for Denison in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, replacing Alfred White who had been appointed Agent-General in London. The parliament was prorogued before Lacey took his seat in the chamber, and he was defeated at the state election in May that year.{{cite Tas Parliament |title=LACEY, Robert Herbert ('Bert') |id=laceyr533 |access-date=24 July 2022}}
In 1964, Lacey was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Tasmania. He held the seat until his defeat in 1970, effectively by independent Michael Townley.{{Cite Au Senate|Sen id=lacey-robert-herbert|name=LACEY, Robert Herbert (1900–1984)|first=Michael|last=Roe|year=2010|access-date=2023-01-03}}{{cite web|last=Carr|first=Adam|title=Australian Election Archive|work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia|year=2008|accessdate=2008-11-24}}
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Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
Category:Members of the Australian Senate for Tasmania
Category:Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
Category:20th-century Australian politicians
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