Albert Bussau

Sir Albert Louis (Lou) Bussau (9 July 1884 – 5 May 1947) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Natimuk to carpenter and farmer Johann Joachim Heinrich Adolph Bussau and Maria Ernestina Rokesky. He attended state school and studied by correspondence with the University of Melbourne, becoming an articled clerk. He worked as such in Warracknabeal, Beulah and Hopetoun. On 22 April 1912 he married schoolteacher Mary Scott Baird. From 1915 he farmed at Hopetoun, and he served on Karkarooc Shire Council from 1921 to 1932 (president from 1926 to 1927). He was a founding member of the Victorian Wheatgrowers Association (president 1933), and president of the Country Progressive Party in 1929. From 1931 to 1932 he was vice-president of the United Country Party.[1]

In 1932 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Ouyen. He was Attorney-General and Solicitor-General in the government of Albert Dunstan between 2 April 1935,[2] and 1 April 1938. Bussau resigned to become Agent-General for Victoria in London.[3] Knighted in 1941, he returned from London in 1944, becoming inaugural chairman of the Australian Wheat Board in 1945.[4] Bussau died at South Yarra in 1947.[1]

References

Duplain, R C. "Bussau, Sir Albert Louis (Lou) (1884 - 1947)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 19 February 2019 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
"Appointment Attorney-General & Solicitor-General Albert Louis Bussau". Victorian Government Gazette. 2 April 1935. p. 1935:1069.
"Appointment of Agent-General for Victoria Albert Louis Bussau". Victorian Government Gazette. 13 April 1935. p. 1938:1303.
"Albert Louis Bussau". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 5 January 2016.

Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Harold Glowrey	Member for Ouyen 1932–1938	Succeeded by Keith Dodgshun
Political offices
Preceded by Ian Macfarlan as Attorney-General	Attorney-General of Victoria Solicitor-General of Victoria 1935 – 1938	Succeeded by Henry Bailey as Attorney-General
Preceded by Harold Cohen as Solicitor-General		Succeeded by Albert Dunstan as Solicitor-General

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[Bussau_ADB-1] Duplain, R C. "Bussau, Sir Albert Louis (Lou) (1884 - 1947)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 19 February 2019 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

[gazette_1935_1069-2] "Appointment Attorney-General & Solicitor-General Albert Louis Bussau". Victorian Government Gazette. 2 April 1935. p. 1935:1069.

[gazette_1938_1303-3] "Appointment of Agent-General for Victoria Albert Louis Bussau". Victorian Government Gazette. 13 April 1935. p. 1938:1303.

[vic-4] "Albert Louis Bussau". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 5 January 2016.