Michael Connington

Michael Joseph Connington (1873 – 3 December 1930) was an Irish-born Australian politician.

He was born in County Roscommon to contractor Michael Connington. He came to New South Wales while young and attended Marist Brothers' College at Darlinghurst. He was a commercial traveller, and was secretary of the Trolley Draymen and Carters' Union. In 1903 he married Hannah Culting, with whom he had six children. He later became involved with the Federated Clerks' Union and with the Labor Party, serving on the executive of the latter from 1911 to 1912. From 1917 to 1930 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He died at Putney in 1930.[1]