Jack Lees
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Jack Lees | |
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| Member of Parliament for Belper | |
| In office 30 May 1929 – 27 October 1931 | |
| Preceded by | Herbert Wragg |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Wragg |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | |
Jack Lees (1884 – 11 August 1940) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Belper in Derbyshire from 1929 to 1931.
Born in West Rainton in County Durham, Lees became a coal miner and joined the Northumberland Miners' Association, eventually becoming a full-time union official.[1]
He contested Belper unsuccessfully at the 1924 general election, losing by over 4,000 votes to the sitting Conservative Party MP Herbert Wragg. At the 1929 election he took the seat with a majority of 2,955, but at the 1931 general election Wragg retook the seat with a majority of nearly 8,000. He stood again at Belper in the 1935 general election but was again defeated. Lees did not stand for Parliament again.
References
[edit]- ^ Stenton, Michael; Lees, Stephen (1979). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament. Vol. 3. Brighton: Harvester Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-85527-325-5.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British Parliamentary Election Results, 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 978-0-900178-06-1.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
[edit]- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Jack Lees
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