Frederick William Piesse

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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| name = Frederick Piesse

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| constituency_MP = Tasmania

| parliament = Australian

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| predecessor = New seat

| successor = William Hartnoll

| alongside = Edward Braddon, Norman Cameron, Philip Fysh, King O'Malley

| term_start = 29 March 1901

| term_end = 6 March 1902

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| birth_place = Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land

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| death_place = New Town, Tasmania, Australia

| nationality = Australian

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| party = Free Trade Party

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Frederick William Piesse (10 December 1848 – 6 March 1902{{cite Tas Parliament |id=piessef244 |title=Piesse, Frederick William |access-date=24 July 2022}}) was a member of the first Australian federal parliament.[http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/elections/electoral_divisions/historical/index.htm Members since 1901] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801173835/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/elections/electoral_divisions/historical/index.htm |date=1 August 2008 }}, Parliament of Australia

Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Piesse worked in law, conveyancing, shipping and horticulture before being elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the Member for North Hobart in 1893. In April 1894, Piesse resigned from the House of Assembly as part of an arrangement to swap seats with Legislative Council member for Buckingham, Philip Fysh, to enable Fysh to take the role of Treasurer in Edward Braddon's ministry.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39503960 |title=POLITICAL. |newspaper=Launceston Examiner |volume=LIV |issue=89 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=14 April 1894 |accessdate=9 April 2017 |page=5 |via=Trove}} Piesse served as an Honorary Minister from 1899 to 1901.

Piesse was elected as a Free Trader to the first federal Australian Parliament as one of the five members for Tasmania. His tenure as a federal parliamentarian would be short lived, however, as he died less than a year after his election. He was the first serving Tasmanian Member of the House of Representatives to die.

Piesse died of septic pneumonia at his home in New Town on 6 March 1902, aged 53, having been ill for three months.{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9579665|title=Obituary|date=7 March 1902|newspaper=The Mercury|location=Hobart}}