William Abraham (Welsh politician)
- William Abraham (Welsh politician)
William "Mabon" Abraham (14 June 1842 – 14 May 1922) was a Welsh trade unionist and Labour politician, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1920.
He was born in Cwmavon, Glamorgan in 1842 and became a coal miner at the age of ten.
Abraham was elected at the 1885 general election as the Liberal-Labour (Lib-Lab) MP for the new Rhondda constituency in Wales, one of twelve Lib-Lab MPs elected that year. In 1898 he was one of the chief negotiaters on behalf of the colliers in the Welsh coal strike of 1898, and although the miners were unsuccessful in their action it saw the creation of the South Wales Miners' Federation of which Abraham became president.
After his re-election at the January 1910 general election, he and the other Lib-Lab MPs from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain joined the Labour Party.
He held the Rhondda seat until its abolition at the 1918 general election, when he was elected for the new Rhondda West constituency. He resigned his seat in 1920, and died two years later aged 78.
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* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUabraham.htm William Abraham bio on Schoolnet]
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