William Edward Baxter (1907–1978) was a politician in Queensland, Australia.
[1][2] At the 1953 state election, Baxter successfully contested the electoral district of Norman as a candidate of the Labor and entered the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
[3] At the 1960 election, he successfully contested the neighbouring seat of Hawthorne, which he retained in 1963.
He was not pre-selected as the ALP candidate for the 1966 election (Thomas Burton, assistant secretary of the Printing Employees Union was chosen) so he contested as an independent Labor candidate, for which he was expelled from the ALP.
[1][4] However, on election day (28 May 1966), he lost to Liberal candidate, Bill Kaus.