Born in South Yarra to brickmaker George Alfred Hughes and Eliza Smartt, Hughes attended Brighton State School and then the College of the Bible in Glen Iris.
He became a minister of religion, and spent the years from February 1926[1] to 1933 as a missionary for the Church of Christ in India.
[5] On 12 June 1943, he was elected to the seat of Caulfield in the Victorian Legislative Assembly[6] as an Independent, serving until his defeat in 1945.
He joined the Labor Party in 1946 and was preselected to contest the federal seat of Flinders in 1949, but the state executive refused to endorse his candidature and expelled him after he stood as an Independent Labor candidate.
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