David John Vaughan (15 November 1873 – 23 November 1938)
was a British
Labour Party politician. He sat in the
House of Commons from 1929 to 1931.
Vaughan unsuccessfully contested
Bristol South at three successive general elections, in
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
,
1923
Events
January–February
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
* January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
and
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
.
He finally won a seat at the
1929 general election, when he was elected as the
Member of Parliament (MP) for the
Forest of Dean division of Gloucestershire, replacing the sitting Labour MP
Albert Arthur Purcell
Albert Arthur "Alf" Purcell (3 November 1872, Hoxton – 24 December 1935) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and later President of the International Fed ...
who did not defend the seat.
However, at the
next general election, in 1931, Vaughan was defeated by Dr.
John Vigers Worthington, standing as a
National Labour candidate.
References
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1873 births
1938 deaths
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1929–1931
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