James Thomson (Australian politician)

For the similarly named NSW politician James Thompson who was the member for St Vincent (1856–1857), see James Thompson (Australian politician).

For the similarly named NSW politician James Thompson who was the member for Queanbeyan (1877–1881), see James Banford Thompson.

For other people with similar names, see James Thomson.

James Thomson (born 1856, date of death unknown) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.

He worked as a miner in Fifeshire from the age of twelve, later moving to Lanarkshire. He migrated to New South Wales in 1874 and worked at the a number of mines, serving as President of the Miners' Association. From 1895 to 1901 he was the Labor member for Newcastle West in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.<^[1]