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Mar 15, 1897 South Yarra, Victoria, Australia Died on 09 May 1972 (aged 75)
Australian politician
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About Arthur Clarey
- Reynold Arthur Clarey (15 March 1897 – 9 May 1972) was an Australian politician. Born in South Yarra to estate agent Francis William Clarey and Catherine Lawson (his half-brother Percy would also go on to be a prominent politician and unionist), Arthur attended Flemington State School, Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce.
- He was employed as a clerk with the Victorian Public Service from 1913 to 1920 and with BHP from 1920 to 1947.
- On 23 September 1940 he married Irene Mary Leech, who died in 1957; he remarried on 1 July 1958 Doris Jane McGinnis, née Blythe.
- Clarey joined the Labor Party in 1932, and was later president of the Clerks' Union.
- In 1955 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Melbourne.
- He was the auditor of the state branch from 1955 to 1970 and the parliamentary treasury spokesman from 1967 to 1970.
- He died in 1972 at Fitzroy.
