Career
He represented Moose Jaw City in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1905 to 1912 as a Provincial Rights Party member. He was born in Forest, Ontario, the son of John Wellington, and was educated in Forest and in Saginaw City, Michigan. Wellington worked as a fireman on the Grand Trunk Railway and as an engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Wellington lived in Moose Jaw, moving there in 1893.
He retired from railway work in 1905. He died at home in Moose Jaw at the age of 76.