Joyce Shore Butler, born Joyce Shore Wells (13 December 1910 – 2 January 1992) was a British

United Kingdom

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 Labour Co-operative

Labour Co-operative

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 politician.

Butler was educated at King Edward's School

King Edward VI High School for Girls

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, Birmingham

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, and Woodbrooke College.
She married Victor Butler

Victor Butler

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, a Co-operative Party

Co-operative Party

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 worker who became a councillor, the first mayor of the London Borough of Haringey

London Borough of Haringey

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 and a parliamentary candidate. She was a housewife

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 and had two children.

Butler became a councillor on Wood Green Borough Council

Municipal Borough of Wood Green

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 in 1947, serving until the borough's abolition in 1965. She was chairman of the Housing committee and Leader of the Labour Group on Wood Green Council. She was an alderman

Alderman

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 and the first chairman of the new London Borough of Haringey in 1964.

Butler was first elected to Parliament at the 1955 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1955

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, for the Wood Green

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 constituency. She served as Parliamentary Private Secretary

Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 to the Minister of Land and Natural Resources 1965-67 but held no front-bench position. She served as vice-chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party

Parliamentary Labour Party

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 and chair of the group of Co-operative Party MPs. She retired from Parliament at the 1979 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1979

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.