John Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath (7 June 1908 – 2 September 1988) was a British
Labour Party politician and
trade union
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leader.
He was mentored by his Uncle, Charles Dukes (
Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston) the drafter of the United Nations Human Rights Act for the United Kingdom.
At the
1950 general election, he was elected as
Member of Parliament for
Deptford
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, but stood down from the
House of Commons
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at the
1951 general election.
From 1961 to 1973 he was
general secretary
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of the
National Union of General and Municipal Workers
The GMB is a general union, general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 560,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National He ...
.
On 11 July 1966, he was made a
life peer
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as Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath, ''of
Stockton Heath
Stockton Heath is a civil parish and suburb of Warrington, in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is located to the north of the Bridgewater Canal and to the south of the Manchester Ship Canal, which divides Stockton Heath from La ...
in the
County Palatine of Chester
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''.
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1908 births
1988 deaths
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
General secretaries of the GMB (trade union)
Cooper, Jack
UK MPs who were granted peerages
Labour Party (UK) life peers
Life peers created by Elizabeth II
Members of London County Council
Presidents of the GMB (trade union)
Presidents of the Trades Union Congress
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