Thomas Cook (politician, 1908)

Thomas Cook Fotheringham (* 7. June 1908 , † 31 May 1952 ) was a Scottish politician of the Labor Party .

Political career

The constituency of Dundee has sent two MPs since 1868. Since the general election in 1931 the Conservative Florence Horsbrugh and the Liberal Dingle Foot held the seats. In the post-war elections in 1945 , the Labor Party put two new candidates in the constituency, Thomas Cook and John Strachey , with Strachey having represented the British constituency of Birmingham Aston in the House of Commons for two years .

After winning votes compared to the previous elections in 1935 , both Labor candidates won seats and entered the British House of Commons. In Parliament, Cook held a position as Parliamentary Private Secretary between 1947 and 1950 .

In the course of the constituency revision, the constituency of Dundee was dissolved at the end of the electoral term and largely taken over into two newly created constituencies, Dundee East and Dundee West . Cook ran for the Dundee East mandate in the 1950 general election . He prevailed against his two opponents and thus retained his parliamentary seat. He received a position as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State . In the subsequent elections in 1951 , Cook defended his mandate. With Cook's death in May 1952, by-elections were required in the Dundee East constituency. With these, Cook's party colleague George Thomson held the mandate for the Labor Party.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lawrence Goldman: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, p. 1107. ISBN 0-199-67154-0
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Cook in Hansard (English)
3. ^ Results of the lower house elections in 1945 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1950 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1951 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ The Mercury, July 19, 1952.

Web links

• Thomas Cook at Hansard (English)