He was the younger brother of fellow Labour MP Frank Wise.
Wise came from the village of Souldern in north Oxfordshire, where he played in the local amateur football team.
For the 1935 general election Wise stood in Conservative-held Lowestoft, where he was defeated again.
He finally entered Parliament at the 1945 general election, when Labour's post-war landslide help him win a majority of 3,274 votes in Conservative-held King's Lynn.
On 24 December 1951, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wise, of King's Lynn in the County of Norfolk.