Charles Stanton

For the US Army officer, see Charles E. Stanton. For the Adjutant General of Connecticut, see Charles T. Stanton.

Charles Butt Stanton (7 April 1873 – 6 December 1946) was a British politician. He served as an Independent Labour Member of Parliament (MP) from 1915 to 1922.

Political career

Stanton began his political career as a miners' leader at Aberdare where he was a prominent ember of the Independent Labour Party. In 1904 he was elected to the Aberdare Urban District Council as a member for the Aberaman Ward. A militant, he was critical of the more moderate approach adopted by the local Labour MP, Keir Hardie, whom he would succeed in 1915 as MP for Merthyr Tydfil,[1] where he stood in a by-election against the Labour Party candidate, James Winstone, and was backed by the British Workers League.[2] He supported the Lloyd George Coalition Government and in 1918 was elected on a National Democratic and Labour Party candidate for the new constituency of Aberdare, but was defeated in 1922 by an official Labour candidate, George Hall.

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  2. ↑ Keohane, N. (2010) The Party of Patriotism: The Conservative Party and the First World War Ashgate. ISBN 0754663248

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Keir Hardie
Edgar Rees Jones		 Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil
1915–1918
With: Edgar Rees Jones		 Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Aberdare
1918–1922 		Succeeded by
George Hall
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