Harold Millington (24 April 1875 – 25 October 1951) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the

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; as a member of the Legislative Council for North-East Province for six years from 1914, and as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1924 to 1947, representing the electorates of Leederville (1924–1930) and

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(1930–1947). He was a long-serving state minister in the governments of

Philip Collier Philip Collier (21 April 1873 – 18 October 1948) was an Australian politician who served as the 14th Premier of Western Australia from 1924 to 1930 and from 1933 to 1936. He was leader of the Labor Party from 1917 to 1936, and is Western Aus ...

and

John Willcock John Collings Willcock (9 August 1879 – 7 June 1956) was the 15th Premier of Western Australia, serving from 1936 until 1945. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party. Early life John Willcock was born at Frogmoor (now Frogmore), New So ...

, and was Deputy Premier under Willcock. Millington was born in

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, and moved to

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in 1894. He was a miner by trade and became active in various unions in

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. He became the first president of the Amalgamated Surface Workers' Union and the secretary of the Eastern Goldfields District Council of the Labor Party. He was elected to the Legislative Council for North-East Province in a 1914 by-election and served in that house until his defeat in 1920. He subsequently served as secretary to the state executive of the Labor Party. Millington contested and won the inner metropolitan electorate of Leederville at the 1924 election, and was promoted to Cabinet as Minister for Agriculture in 1927. His Leederville electorate was divided into two in a redistribution in 1930, and Millington contested and won the new Mount Hawthorn seat. He served, variously, as minister for education, police, industries, works, water supply, local government, town planning and main roads, under both Collier and his successor Willcock. In 1939, Millington was elected deputy Labor leader and Deputy Premier under Willcock. In December 1943, he retired from the deputy role and the ministry citing ill health, and served out his final term on the backbench before retiring at the 1947 election. He died at

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in 1951, four days after being admitted for heart problems. He was survived by his widow and their three sons. He was buried at

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