William Sanders

William Stephen Sanders ( January 2, 1871 - February 6, 1941 ) was a British politician ( Labor Party ).

Life and activity

Sanders was a son of Stephen Sanders from Twickenham . He attended various schools in London and a polytechnic university there as well as universities in Berlin and Jena .

Sanders emerged publicly for the first time as a leading functionary of the Fabian Society , whose Organizing Secretary he was from 1906 to 1914 and whose Secretary he was from 1914 to 1920.

In the general election of January 1906, Sanders ran for the first time for a seat in the House of Commons , the British Parliament. This candidacy, like a second candidacy in the January 1910 elections, in which he ran for the Portsmouth constituency , ended in defeat.

From 1920 to 1929 Sanders was head (Department Chief) of the administrative department of the International Labor Office League of Nations.

In the general election of May 1929 Sanders finally managed to win the majority of the votes cast there as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of Battersea North. He was a member of the House of Commons for almost two years, until the 1931 election in which he was defeated by the conservative candidate Arthur Marsden . In parallel to his membership in parliament, he served from June 1930 to September 1931 for fifteen months as Chief Financial Officer of the British Ministry of War (Financial Secretary to the War Office) in the second government of Ramsay MacDonald .

In the 1935 election, Sanders was able to recapture his parliamentary mandate for Battersea North. He retained his seat in the House of Commons until 1940, when he automatically lost his mandate by assuming the office of Curator of the Manor of Northstead (Steward of the Manor of Northstead). Francis Douglas took over his mandate in the House of Commons.

family

On August 31, 1899, Sanders married Beatrice Marton.

literature

• Dod's Parliamentary Companion , p. 413.