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James Wilson (New South Wales politician, born 1862)

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

He was born at Redditch to labourer James Wilson and Martha Collins. He migrated to New South Wales 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. From 1899 to 1925 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Wilson died in Sydney in 1925.[1]

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  1. ^ "Mr James (1) Wilson (1862-1925)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
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