William Wellington

William John Wellington (10 May 1879 – 2 March 1939) was an Australian miner, trade unionist and politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1915 until his death in 1939, representing the seat of Charters Towers for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

Early days Wellington was born in Adelong, New South Wales, to parents Joseph Wellington and his wife Catherine Jane (née Bennetts). He was still an infant when his family moved to Charters Towers and he attended Charters Towers State School. At fourteen years of age he lost a leg in a mining accident and at nineteen he was Secretary of the Amalgamated Workers Association (soon to become the Australian Workers' Union), a position he held for fifteen years. and together had three sons and three daughters. He was buried in the Lynd Highway Cemetery.