Patrick Gordon Walker
Politician
1907 – 1980
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Who was Patrick Gordon Walker?
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker CH, PC was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet minister. He is best-remembered for the circumstances surrounding the loss of his Smethwick parliamentary seat at the 1964 general election, in a bitterly racial campaign carried on in the wake of local factory closures.
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- Born
- Apr 7, 1907
Worthing - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Christ Church, Oxford
- Died
- Dec 2, 1980
London
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on July 23, 2013
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