William Ives Budington (April 21, 1815 – November 29, 1879) was an American minister. Budington was born in New Haven, Conn., April 21, 1815, the son of William and Lydia (Ives) Budington. He graduated from Yale College in 1834. After graduating he taught in the academy in New Canaan, Conn., for nearly a year, and then began a three years' course in the Yale Divinity School. The year 1838-9 he spent as a resident licentiate in the Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained pastor of the First Church (Congregational) in Charlestown, Mass, April 22, 1840, and fulfilled a happy and prosperous ministry there, until reasons connected with an impaired state of health led him to resign the charge, September 22, 1854. He assumed at once the pastoral care of the Western Presbyterian Church in Ph