Arthur Lewis Shepherd
Politician
1884 – 1951
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Who was Arthur Lewis Shepherd?
Arthur Lewis Shepherd was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was elected at the as Member of Parliament for Darlington at a by-election in 1926, having usuccessfully contested the seat at the 1924 general election. He was re-elected in 1929, but when Labour split at the 1931 general election as Ramsay MacDonald led the breakaway National Labour group into a Conservative-dominated National Government, he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Charles Peat. He stood again in 1935, but lost again by a margin of over 10% of the votes.
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