James Brunton Simpson (22 January 1905 – 10 December 1968) was a Scottish-Australian trade unionist, coal miner and politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Lake Macquarie for the NSW Branch of the Labor Party.
He arrived in New South Wales with his parents in 1921 and worked in Stockton Borehole Colliery at Cockle Creek until was seriously injured in a mining accident in 1924 and had to be hospitalised for seven months.
[1] He studied commercial subjects and was employed by the Northern Districts Miners' Federation as its assistant secretary in 1927.
[2][3] Simpson was elected as the Labor member for Lake Macquarie in 1950 and was re-elected in the seat until his death.
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