Wilfred George Petersen was an Australian politician, affiliated with the Australian Labor Party and elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Petersen was born in Childers, Queensland, the son of George and Eva Petersen and was descended from Scandinavian migrants who came to Queensland in the 1800s. He was educated at Bundaberg State High School, but owing to hard financial times left at age 15. Petersen found work as a telephonist for the PostmasterGenerals Department and as a pensions officer and special magistrate for the Department of Social Services from 1937 to 1968.
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