Albert Stanley was an English Labour politician.

He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for North West Staffordshire

North West Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at a by-election

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 in 1907, as a Liberal–Labour

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 candidate. As with most other Lib-Lab MPs, he joined the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 after his re-election at the January 1910 election.

He was returned to the House of Commons

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 again at the December 1910 general election, and died in office in 1915, aged 52.

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