Edward Fletcher (politician)

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other people". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English

Edward Joseph Fletcher (25 February 1911 – 13 February 1983) was a British Labour Party politician.

Early life

Fletcher was educated at Fircroft College, Birmingham, and was a trade union official. He served as a councillor on Newcastle City Council from 1952, and chaired the North-Eastern Association for the Arts.

Fletcher unsuccessfully contested Middlesbrough West for the Labour Party at the 1959 general election.^[1] At the 1964 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington, and held the seat until his death in 1983, aged 71.^[2] He was a member of the Tribune Group and was regarded as being broadly on the left of the Labour Party.

Fletcher's Labour successor after the resulting by-election was Ossie O'Brien, who was MP for just a matter of weeks before he lost to the Conservative Michael Fallon at the 1983 general election.^[3]

Ted Fletcher Court remains in the Haughton area of Darlington, as a memorial to Fletcher.

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Template:Error
Preceded by Template:Delink question hyphen-minus Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/filter Template:S-bef/check Template:Succession box/check	Member of Parliament for Darlington 1964–1983 Template:S-ttl/check	Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by Template:Delink question hyphen-minus Template:S-aft/filter Template:S-aft/filter Template:S-aft/filter Template:S-aft/filter Template:S-aft/filter Template:S-aft/filter Template:S-aft/filter Template:S-aft/filter Template:S-aft/filter