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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Con Wallace
- Cornelius "Con" Wallace (19 January 1881 – 20 September 1921) was an Australian politician.
- Born in Sydney, he received a primary education before becoming a seaman and an organiser of the Australian Seamen's Union.
- In 1917, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for West Sydney, succeeding Prime Minister Billy Hughes (elected as a member of the Labor Party but now a Nationalist), who contested Bendigo instead.
- In 1919, Wallace contested Nepean to make way for former Queensland Premier T.
- J.
- Ryan, but was defeated.After Wallace's defeat in the 1919 election, Ryan's successor Ted Theodore appointed him to a position in the Queensland Navigation Department.
- He found the salary too small and returned to Sydney.
- After Ryan's death on 1 August 1921, he stood for Labor preselection in the 1921 West Sydney by-election; he lost to William Lambert.
- Wallace suffered a heart attack on 19 September and died the following day at St.
- Joseph's Hospital, Auburn, aged 40.
- His wife, the former Bridget Gallagher, was left destitute with four young children but was supported by his parliamentary colleagues.
- Their son Cornelius Carr Wallace was an ALP member of the Sydney City Council from 1967 to 1972.
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