James Wilson (1862 – 24 September 1925) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at

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to labourer James Wilson and Martha Collins. He migrated to

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around 1870 and worked as a confectioner. He was secretary of the Confectioners Employees Union and its delegate to the Trades and Labor Council, of which he was president in 1892. He was a foundation member of the Labor Party, and president of the Political Labor League from 1898 to 1899. Around 1902 he married Lucy Anne Garnett, with whom he had a daughter. He was a Labor member of the

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from 1899 until his death in 1925. He was reportedly a prominent Labor figure, "brilliant speaker" and sought-after campaigner in his earlier years, but suffered from ailing health and was "not prominent" later in his career, rarely attending the last session before his death. Wilson died in

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in 1925.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, James 1862 births 1925 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council English emigrants to Australia