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Albert Lane
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Barton
In office
19 December 1931 – 21 September 1940
Preceded byJames Tully
Succeeded byHerbert Evatt
Personal details
Born1873
Windsor, New South Wales
Died29 December 1950 (aged 76–77)
NationalityAustralian
Political partyUnited Australia Party
OccupationAccountant

Albert Lane (1873 – 29 December 1950) was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Balmain from 1922 to 1927 and a United Australia Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1931 to 1940.

Lane was born in Windsor, New South Wales and moved to Sydney at seventeen, where he became an accountant. He was actively involved in the Methodist Church, was a keen temperance campaigner, and helped found and was a long-term council member of the New South Wales Home for Incurables. The 1916 liquor referendum which introduced six o'clock closing of pubs in New South Wales was reportedly largely due to his efforts as a temperance campaigner. In 1917 he contested the federal election as the unsuccessful Nationalist candidate for the safe Labor seat of Dalley.

In 1922 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as one of four members for the seat of Balmain, representing the Nationalist Party of Australia. The seat was abolished in 1927, and Lane contested the new single-member seat of Leichhardt, but was defeated.

Lane contested the 1931 federal election as the United Australia Party candidate for Barton, creating history by defeating both the incumbent member for Barton, James Tully, and the member for Martin, John Eldridge, who, as a member of the Lang Labor breakaway party, was attempting to transfer to Barton. Lane held the seat until 1940, when he was defeated by future Labor leader Herbert Evatt.

In December 1941, he was hit by a motorist in Double Bay and broke both his legs. Lane died at his home at Bexley in December 1950 and was cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.

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New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded byJohn Doyle
Albert Smith 		Member for Balmain
1922–1927
Served alongside: Keegan, Quirk, Stopford/Evatt, Stuart-Robertson 		Succeeded byHerbert Evatt
Parliament of Australia
Preceded byJames Tully Member for Barton
1931 – 1940 		Succeeded byHerbert Evatt


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