William Horace Longeran (11 February 1909 – 27 June 1981) was a politician in Queensland, Australia.
[3] Longeran won the 1957 Queensland state election (held on 3 August 1957) in Flinders as a member of the Country/National Party, defeating the sitting Labor member Frank Forde (a former Prime Minister of Australia) by one vote.
Forde contested the result, arguing that some votes had been wrongly disallowed.
On 2 August 1972, he was elected Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly against the wishes of the then Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen; Longeran is alleged to have contested the position because he believed that North Queensland was not adequately represented in the Bjelke-Petersen Ministry.
On 10 October 1974 he had a heart attack while crossing Alice Street between Parliament House and the former Bellevue Hotel.