Stanley Bruce

Stanley Bruce
Date of birth	15 April 1883
Date of death	25 August 1967
Wife	Ethel Bruce
Party	Nationalist Party
Prime Minister
From	9 February 1923
To	22 October 1929
Succeeded	William Hughes
Preceded	James Scullin

The Rt. Hon. Stanley Melbourne Bruce was Australia's Prime Minister from 1923 to 1929. He succeeded William Hughes following the former's resignation, but lost his seat in the 1929 election; the only Prime Minister to do so.

In 1933 Bruce became Australia's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, which role he held for 13 years.

Source

• National Museum of Australia, Stanley Bruce

Australian Prime Ministers
Edmund Barton (1901) Alfred Deakin (1903, 1905, and 1909) John Watson (1904) George Reid (1904) Andrew Fisher (1908, 1910, and 1914) Joseph Cook (1913) William Hughes (1915)	Stanley Bruce (1923) James Scullin (1929) Joseph Lyons (1932) Earle Page (1939) Robert Menzies (1939 and 1949) Arthur Fadden (1941) John Curtin (1941)	Francis Forde (1945) Joseph Chifley (1945) Harold Holt (1966) John McEwen (1967) John Gorton (1968) William McMahon (1971) Gough Whitlam (1972)	Malcolm Fraser (1975) Robert Hawke (1983) Paul Keating (1991) John Howard (1996) Kevin Rudd (2007)