William Edwin Wheeldon (20 February 1898 – 7 October 1960) was a British co-operator and municipal politician from Small Heath Borough Constituency in Birmingham[1] who later became a Member of Parliament.
When Labour won control of the City Council in 1946, Wheeldon was made Chairman of the Finance Committee.
Following the death of Fred Longden, Wheeldon was elected as Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Small Heath in a by-election in 1952.
Unusually for the time, he was opposed to building tower blocks to ease the housing crisis, insisting that workers wanted to live on ground level with a bit of garden.
His health declined in 1958, and he fought the 1959 general election from a hospital bed, leaving it only on polling day to meet party workers.