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John Pratt (Liberal politician)

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Pratt was Warden of Glasgow University Settlement, 1902–12 and was a Member of Glasgow Town Council, 1906. At the start of his political career he was a
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without success. He did not contest the 1924 General Election. At the 1929 General Election, he stood for the Liberals at
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of the same year. At the 1923 General election he sought a return to parliament but narrowly failed to re-gain
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies
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without success. At the 1931 General Election, he stood for the
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Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health for Scotland
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Scottish
Liberal Party
Fabian
Linlithgowshire
a 1913 by-election
Glasgow Cathcart
coalition government
David Lloyd George
Junior Lord of the Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health for Scotland
1922 Dissolution Honours
general election
Dundee
1924 Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election
Sunderland
New Party
Manchester Hulme
1913 Linlithgowshire by-election
Liberal
Unionist
James Kidd
Turnout
Liberal
Swing
General election 1918
Liberal
Labour
Gavin Brown Clark

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