Harry Moorehouse

Harry Russell Moorhouse (1 June 1892 – 13 December 1971) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography Moorhouse was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of James Moorhouse and his wife Eva Annie (née Case). He was educated at Queensland state schools and in his early twenties joined the First Australian Imperial Force to fight in World War I. He was an original ANZAC and saw action at Gallipoli, Belgium and France. and together had a son and two daughters. He died in Townsville in December 1971.

He entered Queensland state politics as an independent democrat and won the seat of Windsor at the 1941 state election. He held the seat until 1944 when he was comprehensively defeated by both the Labor and QPP candidates.