John Frederick Herbert

John Frederick Herbert (16 September 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Wallaroo from 1912 to 1918.

[1] Herbert was born at Wallaroo, and was a carpenter by trade.

He returned to Wallaroo over a decade later, where he was a Corporate Town of Wallaroo councillor for eight years, including as mayor in 1912 and 1913, and later town clerk for sixteen years, resigning the latter role in 1936 due to ill health.

[3][4][5][6] He was an active sportsman, variously successful at football, cricket swimming and rowing.

[9] He was overwhelmingly defeated by a Labor candidate when he ran for re-election at the 1918 election, polling less than half the Labor vote even at Wallaroo township.