William Carter (12 June 1862 – 29 February 1932) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Carter was born in

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...

, and became a coal miner before winning election as

checkweighman {{Short description, Occupation within mining, especially coal A checkweighman (occasionally checkmeasurer or checkweigher) is a person who is responsible for weighing coal or another mined substance, and thereby determining the payment due to each ...

. He also became active in the Nottinghamshire Miners' Association (NMA), serving as its president in 1909, and later becoming a full-time official. He also served on the executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. Carter was a supporter of the Labour Party, and was elected to Mansfield Town Council. During World War I, he served on the Local Appeals Tribunal. He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for

in Nottinghamshire, but was defeated at the 1922 general election by the Liberal Party candidate, Albert Bennett. Carter did not stand for Parliament again, instead returning to the NMA. He was elected as general secretary of the union in 1926, serving until his death in 1932.

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* 1862 births 1932 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1918–1922 {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub