William Connell (September 10, 1827 – March 21, 1909) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

William Connell was born on September 10, 1827, in Sydney in the Nova Scotia colony of British Canada.

[4] He was appointed sole arbitrator for the Mud Run disaster in October 1888.

He successfully contested the election of George Howell to the Fifty-eighth Congress and served from February 10, 1904, to March 3, 1905.

[1] His summer estate, Lacawac, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.