Florence Paton
| Florence Paton | |
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| Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe |
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In office 5 July 1945 – 22 February 1950 |
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| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Ralph Assheton |
| Succeeded by | Martin Redmayne |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Florence Beatrice Widdowson 1 June 1891 Taunton, Somerset |
| Died | 12 October 1976 (aged 85) Wolverhampton |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | John Paton |
Florence Beatrice Paton (née Widdowson; 1 June 1891 – 12 October 1976) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1950.
She was born in Taunton, Somerset, where her father was a railway guard. The family moved to Wolverhampton, where she later became a schoolteacher. A Methodist lay preacher, she was initially a Liberal, but joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1917.
Under her maiden name of Florence Widdowson, she first stood for Parliament at the Cheltenham by-election in 1928, and at the 1929 general election, she contested the Rushcliffe constituency in Nottinghamshire. After her marriage in 1930 to the future Labour MP John Paton, she stood again in Rushcliffe in 1931. When the ILP split from Labour in 1932, John and Florence Paton stayed with the ILP. They left the following year, and rejoined the Labour Party, but by then the Ruschcliffe Constituency Labour Party had selected H.J. Cadogan as its prospective parliamentary candidate. She was reselected as candidate only after Cadogan had been defeated in the 1934 by-election and at the 1935 general election.
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