Joseph Compton

Joseph Compton (21 April 1881 – 18 January 1937)[1] was a British Labour Party politician.

He had previously contested Swindon at the 1918 and 1922 general elections, without success,[2] and was selected for Gorton when the sitting Labour MP John Hodge retired.

Compton was re-elected in 1924 and in 1929, but was defeated at the 1931 general election (when Labour split of Ramsay MacDonald's decision to form a national government with the Conservatives).

He was re-elected at the 1935 general election, and held the seat until his death in 1937, aged 55.

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