William Long (Australian politician)

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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| name = William Long

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| constituency_MP = Lang

| parliament = Australian

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| predecessor = Elliot Johnson

| successor = Dick Dein

| term_start = 17 November 1928

| term_end = 19 December 1931

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1885|6|18}}

| birth_place = Newcastle, New South Wales

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1957|3|3|1885|6|18}}

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| nationality = Australian

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| party = Australian Labor Party

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| occupation = Boilermaker

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William John Long (18 June 1885 – 3 March 1957) was an Australian politician.

Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, he received a primary education before becoming a boilermaker at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops for fifteen years and a member of the Federated Boilermakers Society.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67621859 |title=Boilermaker Replaces Former Speaker. |newspaper=The Advocate |location=Tasmania|date=20 November 1928 |accessdate=21 December 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106134907 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers' Advocate |issue=3724 |location=New South Wales|date=17 May 1944 |accessdate=21 December 2016 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239945236 |title=WITH HIS MATES |newspaper=The Labor Daily |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 May 1925 |access-date=31 December 2019 |page=5 |via=Trove }} He was the unsuccessful Labor candidate for Botany at the 1925 state election and for Nepean at the 1927 state election.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222431334 |title=READY TO SERVE |newspaper=The Sun |issue=5276 |location=Sydney |date=5 October 1927 |accessdate=21 December 2016 |page=13|edition=FINAL EXTRA|via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108670578 |title=GOOD SPORTS |newspaper=Nepean Times |volume=44 |issue=4421 |location=New South Wales|date=22 October 1927 |accessdate=21 December 2016 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}

He was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Lang at the 1928 federal election, defeating long-serving Nationalist MP and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Elliot Johnson. Long held the seat until his own defeat in 1931.{{cite web|last=Carr|first=Adam|title=Australian Election Archive|work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia|year=2008|accessdate=2008-06-07}}

He made a final bid for public office at the 1944 state election, when he unsuccessfully contested the Parramatta as an independent. He died in 1957.