Jennie Adamson
| Janet Laurel Adamson | |
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| Member of Parliament for Dartford | |
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In office 7 November 1938 – 4 July 1945 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Edward Clarke |
| Succeeded by | Norman Dodds |
| Member of Parliament for Peckham | |
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In office 5 July 1945 – 21 July 1946 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Ashley Bramall |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Janet Laurel Johnston 9 May 1882 Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
| Died | 25 April 1962 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | William Murdoch Adamson |
Janet Laurel Adamson (née Johnston; 9 May 1882 – 25 April 1962) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She sat in the House of Commons from 1938 to 1946, and served as a junior minister in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government.
Janet Laurel Johnston was born on 9 May 1882, the daughter of Thomas Johnston of Kirkcudbright. She married, in 1902, to William Murdoch Adamson (d. 1945), a Transport and General Workers' Union official who became Labour MP for Cannock.
From 1928 to 1931, Adamson was a member of London County Council for Lambeth North. She served on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 1927 to 1947.
Adamson unsuccessfully contested Dartford at the 1935 general election, when the sitting Conservative MP Frank Clarke held the seat with a significantly reduced majority. However, Clarke died in July 1938, and at the resulting by-election in November 1938, Adamson won the seat on a swing of 4.2%.
The constituency was divided in boundary changes for the 1945 general election, when Adamson was elected with a large majority (27% of the votes) for the new Bexley constituency. She served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary from 1940 to 1945 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions from 1945 to 1946, under minister Wilfred Paling.
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