Frederick George Crooke (1 February 1897 – 17 July 1965) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

 for a single term from 1950 until 1953 . He was a member of the Country Party

National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

.

Crooke was born in Hill End, New South Wales

Hill End, New South Wales

Hill End is a former gold mining town in New South Wales, Australia, in Bathurst Regional Council. It owes its existence to the New South Wales gold rush of the 1850s, and at its peak in the early 1870s it had a population estimated at 8,000 served by two newspapers, five banks, eight churches, and...

. He was the son of a carrier and was educated to elementary level. After initially working as a farm hand and share farmer, Crooke became a storekeeper in Mudgee. He served in the First Australian Imperial Force

First Australian Imperial Force

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 and was wounded and captured in France. On repatriation he became active in Mudgee community organizations including the hospital and ambulance boards and the parents and citizens association. Crooke was a councillor on Mudgee Shire Council between 1936 and 1949 and was the mayor in 1945-6. Crooke was elected to the New South Wales Parliament as the Country Party member for Mudgee

Electoral district of Mudgee

Mudgee was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales first created in 1859, partly replacing Wellington and Bligh and named after and including Mudgee. Following the abolition of Goldfields West in 1880, it elected three members simultaneously,...

 at the 1950

New South Wales state election, 1950

The 1950 New South Wales State state election was held on 17 June 1950. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1949 redistribution...

 state election. He replaced the Labor Party's Bill Dunn

Bill Dunn

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 who had retired.
He was defeated at the 1953

New South Wales state election, 1953

The 1953 New South Wales state election was held on 14 February 1953. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1952 redistribution...

 state election by Labor's Leo Nott

Leo Nott

Leo Mervyn Nott was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1953 and 1968 and again between 1971 and 1973. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party ....

. He did not hold ministerial or party office.