William Story (Australian politician)

William Story
Senator for South Australia
In office 1 January 1904 – 3 April 1917
Succeeded by	James Rowell
Member of the Australian Parliament for Boothby
In office 5 May 1917 – 16 December 1922
Preceded by	George Dankel
Succeeded by	Jack Duncan-Hughes
Personal details
Born	(1857-05-31)31 May 1857 Adelaide, South Australia
Died	13 July 1924(1924-07-13) (aged 67)
Political party	Labor (1903–17) Nationalist (1917–22)
Occupation	Stonemason, bricklayer

William Harrison Story (31 May 1857 – 13 July 1924) was an Australian politician.

Biography

Born in Adelaide, he was educated at state schools before becoming a stonemason and bricklayer. He served as President of the Operative Masons and Bricklayers Society and the Adelaide Trades and Labour Council, and was mayor of Norwood and Kensington District Council in 1902.

In 1903, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator from South Australia. In the 1916 Labor split, he was one of several Labor parliamentarians who joined Prime Minister Billy Hughes in leaving the Labor Party over the issue of conscription, eventually joining with the Commonwealth Liberal Party to form the Nationalist Party.

Story transferred to the House of Representatives in 1917, winning the seat of Boothby as a Nationalist. He was the first South Australian to have served in both houses of federal parliament. He held the seat until 1922, when he was defeated by Jack Duncan-Hughes, a member of the breakaway Liberal Party. Story died in 1924.