Edgar Oates

Edgar Alfred "Oscar" Oates (1 November 1889 – 2 September 1951 (His parliamentary biography gives his date of birth as 1 November 1889, which would make his age at death as , while his death notice gives his age as 63, He was also president of the SA Public Schools Committees' Association and president of the state executive of the Working Men's Association.)

During his term of office he made three attempts to introduce a State lottery, and was about to make a fourth on the week he died. He also made considerable attempts to have a new hospital built in the Port Adelaide area. He was a member of the Parliamentary Land Settlement Committee, and Libraries and Printing Committees.

He died suddenly at his Rosewater home in 1951 while still in office; he had been scheduled to be the main speaker at a Labor rally later that day.

He was married to Ada Grace; they had a son, Alfred J. G. Oates of Rosewater and a daughter Joan, Mrs. A McDonald of Rosewater Gardens. They lived at 38 Junction road. Rosewater.