Alfred John Stephenson

The Honourable Alfred Stephenson
Alfred John Stevenson, 1903
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Ipswich
In office 21 March 1896 – 11 March 1902 Serving with Thomas Cribb
Preceded by	James Wilkinson
Succeeded by	James Blair
Member of the Queensland Legislative Council
In office 3 July 1914 – 4 December 1914
Personal details
Born	Alfred John Stevenson (1845-11-15)15 November 1845 Pimlico, London, England
Died	4 December 1914(1914-12-04) (aged 69) Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Resting place	Ipswich General Cemetery
Nationality	English Australian
Political party	Ministerialist
Spouse(s)	Jane Graham Tully (m.1867 d.1909), Charlotte Lee Smith, (née Haffner) (m.1914 d.1943)
Occupation	Printer, Newspaper proprietor
Religion	Congregationalist

Alfred John Stephenson (1845–1914) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.

Alfred John Stephenson was born on 15 November 1845 at Pimlico, London, England, the son of John Stephenson and his wife Martha. He attended a Birkbeck school and then a private academy.

At age 15 he left England and came to Ipswich, Queensland.

Stephenson was apprenticed as printer on the North Australian newspaper published in Ipswich. In 1877 he became one of the proprietors of the Queensland Times.

He served on various boards, trusts and committees including:

On 7 March 1894, John MacFarlane, one of the two Ministerialist members for Ipswich, died. Alfred Stephenson contested the resulting by-election on 31 March 1894 as a Ministerialist, but Australian Labour Party candidate James Wilkinson won.

Alfred John Stephenson was elected in the electoral district of Ipswich on 21 March 1896 (the 1896 election) and served until 11 March 1902 when he was defeated in the 1902 election by lawyer James Blair.

In June 1902, he was elected an alderman of the Ipswich City Council and served as mayor in 1907.