About: Arthur Blakeley

Arthur Blakeley (3 July 1886 – 27 June 1972) was an Australian politician. Blakeley was born in Gilberton, South Australia and educated at North Broken Hill Convent School. He left school at 13 to work in the local mining camps. He then mainly worked in pastoral occupations and became secretary of the western branch the Australian Workers' Union and a member of the state executive of the Australian Labor Party from 1915 to 1917. He married Ruby Pauline McCarroll in 1914.