Albert Edward Chapman (3 June 1872 – 1945) was an Australian politician. He was born at

Marulan Marulan is a small town east of the Great Dividing Range and is located in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the Goulburn Mulwaree Council local government area and the traditional lands of the Gundungurra people. It ...

to wheelwright and publican Richard Chapman and Monica Cain. He attended the local public school and then St Patrick's College in

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before becoming a schoolteacher. From 1894 he worked as an auctioneer and agent with his brother,

Austin Chapman Sir Austin Chapman (10 July 186412 January 1926) was an Australian politician who served in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives from 1901 until his death in 1926. He held ministerial office in the governments of A ...

. He was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

in 1901 as the Progressive member for Braidwood, succeeding his brother who had transferred to federal politics, but in 1904 he retired due to the reduction in the size of the Assembly. From 1917 to 1918 he served in the Australian Imperial Force as a private. Unmarried and childless, Chapman died some time in 1945.

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1872 births 1945 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly {{Australia-politician-stub