Charles Wilson (Australian politician)
Charles Graham Wilson was an Australian politician.
Wilson arrived in the Armidale area around 1869, and worked as a council clerk before becoming an alderman and mayor.
He stood for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 1891 election as a Protectionist candidate for New England, however he was unsuccessful. At the 1898 election he was elected member for Armidale for the National Federal Party, with 56.3% of the vote, defeating the siting Free Trade member Edmund Lonsdale. He was defeated by Lonsdale at the following election in 1901, with 49.2% of the vote. He stood again at the 1903 Armidale by-election as an independent but was unsuccessful, with 33.1% of the vote.
Wilson died at Paignton in Devon in 1926, aged years.
