George Dallas (Labour politician)
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George Dallas MP |
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| Member of Parliament for Wellingborough | |
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In office 1929–1931 |
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| Preceded by | William Cove |
| Succeeded by | Archibald James |
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George Dallas 8 June 1878 Glasgow |
| Died | 4 January 1961 (aged 82) Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
George Dallas (6 August 1878 – 4 January 1961) was a British Labour Party politician.
Born in Glasgow, Dallas worked as a coal miner in his youth. He joined the Socialist League in about 1894 before moving to London to work for a coal merchant. Returning to Glasgow, he participated in the trade union movement and a variety of jobs before becoming the Secretary of the Independent Labour Party in Scotland from 1908 until 1912.
In 1912, Dallas moved back to London to work as the organiser of the National Federation of Women Workers, but soon moved to the Workers' Union. In 1917, he was appointed to the Agricultural Wages Board. In 1922, he moved to the newly built Welwyn Garden City.
At the 1918 and 1922 general elections, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Maldon constituency in Essex, coming a distant second on each occasion, with 39.6% and 27.8% of the votes respectively. He was unsuccessful again at the 1923 general election in Scottish constituency of Roxburgh and Selkirk, coming third with 26% of the votes.
Dallas did not contest the 1924 general election. However, at the 1929 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for the marginal seat of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, after the sitting Labour MP William Cove moved to the safe Labour seat of Aberavon in Wales.
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