William Keenan (1889 – 15 December 1955) was a British

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and politician. Born in

Bootle Bootle (pronounced ) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 51,394 in 2011; the wider Bootle (UK Parliament constituency), Parliamentary constituency had a population of 98,449. Histo ...

, Keenan became an official of the

Transport and General Workers' Union The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland – where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate its ...

in 1923. He also joined the Labour Party, and was elected to Bootle Town Council in 1925, serving until 1945, including a term as Mayor of Bootle in 1944. He was

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(MP) for Liverpool Kirkdale from 1945 to 1955.

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* 1889 births 1955 deaths UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Transport and General Workers' Union-sponsored MPs British republicans {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub