Bert Hoare

Bert Hoare
File:Albert Hoare.jpg
Senator for South Australia
In office 16 December 1922 – 30 June 1935
Preceded by	Edward Vardon
Personal details
Born	(1874-11-22)22 November 1874 Alberton, South Australia
Died
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Labor
Occupation	Labourer

Albert Alfred "Bert" Hoare (22 November 1874 – 25 January 1962) was a South Australian politician.

Born in Alberton, South Australia, he was educated at Port Adelaide and Mount Barker state schools. He worked as a farm labourer at Boolcunda East, near Quorn for sixteen years, and worked as shearer for 20 years. He was employed, perhaps as a storeman, at the Government workshops in Glanville, before running his own dairy farm. He returned to Government service at the Islington Railway Workshops of the South Australian Railways.

In 1921 he contested the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Murray, but was unsuccessful. In 1922 he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for South Australia, succeeding Liberal Edward Vardon. He held the seat until his defeat in 1934. In 1944, he returned to politics as a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council, serving until 1956.

He was a prominent member of the Australian Natives' Association, a member of the Labor Party's Port Adelaide electorate committee and President of the Port Adelaide Workers' Educational Association.

Family

Bert married a girl surnamed Hancock on 19 April 1913; they had a small family, and lived at Hodgeman Road, Pennington, then 19 Torrens Road, Alberton.