For the rugby league footballer of the 1900s for England, Yorkshire, and Hull F.C., see Harry Wallace

Harry Wallace (rugby league)

Harry Wallace was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s who at representative level has played for England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Hull.-International honours:...

Harry Wright Wallace (11 September 1885 – 30 April 1973) was a British

United Kingdom

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 Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician.

He was Assistant Secretary of the Post Office Workers Union.

At the 1924 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1924

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, he was unsuccessful Labour candidate at Bury

Bury (UK Parliament constituency)

Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament ) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

 in Lancashire.

At the 1929 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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, he was elected as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Walthamstow East

Walthamstow East (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He lost the seat two years later, as Labour's vote collapsed in the 1931 election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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 when party split over its leader Ramsay Macdonald

Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....

's formation of a National Government

National Government 1931-1935

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.

Wallace regained his seat in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1945

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, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1955 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1955

The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under new leader and prime minister Sir Anthony Eden against Labour Party, now in their 20th year...

 by the Conservative John Harvey

John Harvey (UK politician)

John Edgar Harvey CBE was a British Conservative Party politician.Harvey was born in Derry. He attended Xavierian College in Bruges and Lyme Regis Grammar School...

.