John Birmingham (born 1953) is a

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-born

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politician who served as a

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of the Legislative Assembly for the

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from a by-election in 2008 until the 2009 general election. Birmingham was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council, which was reconstituted into the Legislative Assembly with the implementation of the 2009 Constitution. He was previously a Member of the Legislative Council from

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–

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. Birmingham was born in England and educated at Chichester College. At the age of seventeen, he joined the British Merchant Navy. Four years later he left the Navy and travelled to the Falklands to work on a Camp sheep farm. After touring mainland South America, he returned to the islands where he married Louise, and in 1988 the couple moved to Stanley. Birmingham was first elected to the Legislative Council in a 1994 by-election and was re-elected in

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and

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, but lost his seat in

. He returned to the Legislative Council at a by-election in 2008 to fill the seat left vacant by Richard Davies, but he lost his seat again in the 2009 general election.

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1953 births Living people British Merchant Navy personnel Falkland Islands businesspeople Falkland Islands Councillors 1993–1997 Falkland Islands Councillors 1997–2001 Falkland Islands Councillors 2001–2005 Falkland Islands Councillors 2005–2009 Falkland Islands MLAs 2021–2025 People from Salford English emigrants to the Falkland Islands {{Falklands-stub