Bruce Pie

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| birth_name = Arthur Bruce Pie

| birth_date = {{birth date|1902|5|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Coburg, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|7|30|1902|5|18|df=yes}}

| death_place = Sydney, New South Wales

| nationality = Australian

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| spouse = Jean Margaret Wright

| occupation = Businessman

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| office1 = 2nd Leader of the Queensland People's Party

| predecessor1 = John Beals Chandler

| successor1 = Thomas Hiley

| term_start1 = 1946

| term_end1 = 1948

| constituency_AM2 = Hamilton

| assembly2 = Queensland Legislative

| predecessor2 = Hugh Russell

| successor2 = John Beals Chandler

| term_start2 = 1941

| term_end2 = 1943

| constituency_AM3 = Windsor

| assembly3 = Queensland Legislative

| predecessor3 = Harry Moorhouse

| successor3 = Thomas Rasey

| term_start3 = 1944

| term_end3 = 1950

| constituency_AM4 = Kedron

| assembly4 = Queensland Legislative

| predecessor4 = New seat

| successor4 = Eric Lloyd

| term_start4 = 1950

| term_end4 = 1951

| party = Queensland People's Party

| otherparty = Liberal Party
Independent Democrat

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| height = 180 cm

| weight = 66 kg

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| games_goals1 = 1 (0)

| statsend = 1926

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Arthur Bruce Pie (18 May 1902 – 30 July 1962) was an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

Early life

The son of Arthur Savoi Garibaldi Pie, and Annie Gertrude Pie, née Miller, Arthur Bruce Pie was born in Coburg, Victoria on 18 May 1902.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9077061 Births: Pie, The Argus, (Saturday, 31 May 1902), p.9.]

He married Jean Margaret Wright at Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensland on 24 June 1925.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20944216 Marriages: Pie—Wright, The Brisbane Courier, (Saturday, 18 July 1925), p.6.]

Education

He attended Caulfield Grammar School 1916–1917,Webber (1981), p.310. and played for the school's First XVIII.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/121083342 Caulfield Grammar School Football Team, Punch, (Thursday, 22 November 1917), p.19.]

Football

=Caulfield Grammarians (MAFA)=

He played with the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club, and was its coach on 1926.

=Brisbane (QFL)=

In 1924 he was captain of Brisbane Football Club,[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198543692 Australian Game, The (Brisbane) Daily Standard, (Monday, 23 June 1924), p.9.] and only ceased playing for the team when he was transferred, with his employment, to Melbourne in 1925.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/177099359? Australian Rules, The (Brisbane) Telegraph, (Monday, 6 July 1925), p.7.]

=Melbourne (VFL)=

He also played one senior game of Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League for {{AFL Mel}} in 1926.

He was the president of the Queensland National Football Association in the 1930s.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41007406 |title=BIG MEN IN SPORT. |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane |date=6 July 1938 |accessdate=5 January 2012 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Employment

Pie worked in Melbourne and Brisbane in the importing and textile manufacturing industries, and owned his own group of businesses.{{Australian Dictionary of Biography

|last=Williams

|first=Paul D.

|year=2000

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|title= Pie, Arthur Bruce (1902–1962)

|accessdate=29 December 2008 }}

Political career

Pie was elected to Queensland Parliament in 1941 as an independent Democrat, but resigned to contest the seat of Brisbane in the 1943 federal election. He was defeated by the incumbent George Lawson, and re-entered the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1944 as the Member for Windsor from the Queensland People's Party (QPP).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42043707 |title=BRUCE PIE FOR WINDSOR. |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane |date=17 February 1944 |accessdate=5 January 2012 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Pie succeeded John Beals Chandler as the leader of the QPP in 1946, and served in this role until 1948. In 1950 he became the Member for Kedron as a Liberal Party politician, but he resigned from the Party following a dispute about parliamentary pay increases, and resigned from Parliament in 1951.

''Journey into Desolation''

Pie visited the concentration camps of Nazi Germany in 1945 shortly after the end of the Third Reich, and published a book called Journey into Desolation (Pie, 1946) after this experience.

Later life

Following his political career, Pie was a member and leader of several Brisbane clubs until his death.

Footnotes

References

Pie, Bruce, Journey into Desolation: The Journal of a 2,000 mile Tour through the Wreckage of the Third Reich, shortly after the Nazi Surrender, John Mills, (Brisbane), 1946.
{{cite book | author=Webber, Horace | title=Years May Pass On... Caulfield Grammar School, 1881–1981 | publisher=Centenary Committee, Caulfield Grammar School, (East St Kilda) | year=1981 | isbn=0-9594242-0-2}}