Joseph Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson of Ardwick (1884 – 26 February 1950) was a Labour Party politician in the

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. He won money in the Irish Sweep and went on to become Lord Mayor of Carlisle from 1927-1928. He was President of the National Union of Railwaymen from 1934 to 1937 before being succeeded by Walter T. Griffiths. He was elected as

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(MP) for Manchester Ardwick at a

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in June 1931, following the death of the Labour MP Thomas Lowth. At the general election in October 1931, when Labour split over

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's formation of a

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, he lost the seat to the

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candidate Albert George Hubert Fuller. Henderson regained the seat at the 1935 general election, and represented Manchester Ardwick in the House of Commons until he was elevated to the peerage in the

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on 22 January 1950, as Baron Henderson of Ardwick, of Morton Park in the City of Carlisle. He died only five weeks later, in

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, on 26 February, aged 65, when the title became extinct.

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* 1884 births Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs who were granted peerages 1950 deaths Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers National Union of Railwaymen-sponsored MPs Presidents of the National Union of Railwaymen Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951 Barons created by George VI {{UK-baron-stub