Joseph Sullivan (British politician)

For other people named Joseph Sullivan, see Joseph Sullivan (disambiguation).
Sullivan 1923

Joseph Sullivan (8 September 1866 – 13 February 1935) was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1922 to 1924, and from 1926 to 1931.

At the 1918 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the North Lanarkshire constituency, but won the seat at the 1922 general election. He was re-elected in 1923, but was defeated at the 1924 general election by the Conservative Party candidate Sir Alexander Sprot.

In 1926 he was returned to the House of Commons as MP for Bothwell, at a by-election following the death of the Labour MP John Robertson. He was re-elected in 1929, but lost the seat at the 1931 general election when the Labour vote collapsed as the party split over its leader Ramsay MacDonald's formation of a National Government.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Robert McLaren
Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire
19221924
Succeeded by
Sir Alexander Sprot
Preceded by
John Robertson
Member of Parliament for Bothwell
19261931
Succeeded by
Helen Brown Shaw
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