John Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath

Politician

1908 – 1988

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Who was John Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath?

John Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath, known as Jack Cooper, was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader.

At the 1950 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Deptford, but stood down from the House of Commons at the 1951 general election.

From 1961 to 1973 he was general secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

In July 1966, he was made a life peer as Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath, of Stockton Heath in the County Palatine of Chester.

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Born
Jun 7, 1908
Died
Sep 2, 1988

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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