William McLean Watson (1874–1962) became

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MP for Dunfermline Burghs,

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, in 1922. He lost his seat in the National Government landslide of 1931, but won it back in 1935 and retained it until 1950. Before his career in

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, he was a miner and an official in the Scottish miners' union. He first contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1918.

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