| Bruce Pie | |||||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Arthur Bruce Pie | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 18 May 1902 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Coburg, Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse: | Jean Margaret Wright | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Businessman | ||||||||||||||
| Office1: | 2nd Leader of the Queensland People's Party | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | John Beals Chandler | ||||||||||||||
| Successor1: | Thomas Hiley | ||||||||||||||
| Term Start1: | 1946 | ||||||||||||||
| Term End1: | 1948 | ||||||||||||||
| Constituency Am2: | Hamilton | ||||||||||||||
| Assembly2: | Queensland Legislative | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor2: | Hugh Russell | ||||||||||||||
| Successor2: | John Beals Chandler | ||||||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 1941 | ||||||||||||||
| Term End2: | 1943 | ||||||||||||||
| Constituency Am3: | Windsor | ||||||||||||||
| Assembly3: | Queensland Legislative | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor3: | Harry Moorhouse | ||||||||||||||
| Successor3: | Thomas Rasey | ||||||||||||||
| Term Start3: | 1944 | ||||||||||||||
| Term End3: | 1950 | ||||||||||||||
| Constituency Am4: | Kedron | ||||||||||||||
| Assembly4: | Queensland Legislative | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor4: | New seat | ||||||||||||||
| Successor4: | Eric Lloyd | ||||||||||||||
| Term Start4: | 1950 | ||||||||||||||
| Term End4: | 1951 | ||||||||||||||
| Party: | Queensland People's Party | ||||||||||||||
| Otherparty: | Liberal Party Independent Democrat | ||||||||||||||
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Arthur Bruce Pie (18 May 1902 – 30 July 1962) was an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
The son of Arthur Savoi Garibaldi Pie, and Annie Gertrude Pie, née Miller, Arthur Bruce Pie was born in Coburg, Victoria on 18 May 1902.[1]
He married Jean Margaret Wright at Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensland on 24 June 1925.[2]
He attended Caulfield Grammar School 1916–1917,[3] and played for the school's First XVIII.[4]
He played with the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club, and was its coach on 1926.
In 1924 he was captain of Brisbane Football Club,[5] and only ceased playing for the team when he was transferred, with his employment, to Melbourne in 1925.[6]
He also played one senior game of Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League for in 1926.
He was the president of the Queensland National Football Association in the 1930s.[7]
Pie worked in Melbourne and Brisbane in the importing and textile manufacturing industries, and owned his own group of businesses.
Pie was elected to Queensland Parliament in 1941 as an independent Democrat, but resigned to contest the seat of Brisbane in the 1943 federal election. He was defeated by the incumbent George Lawson, and re-entered the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1944 as the Member for Windsor from the Queensland People's Party (QPP).[8]
Pie succeeded John Beals Chandler as the leader of the QPP in 1946, and served in this role until 1948. In 1950 he became the Member for Kedron as a Liberal Party politician, but he resigned from the Party following a dispute about parliamentary pay increases, and resigned from Parliament in 1951.
Pie visited the concentration camps of Nazi Germany in 1945 shortly after the end of the Third Reich, and published a book called Journey into Desolation (Pie, 1946) after this experience.
Following his political career, Pie was a member and leader of several Brisbane clubs until his death.