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Sir Joseph Jackson Cleary, JP (26 October 1902 – 9 February 1993) was a British Labour Party politician. Early lifeJoseph Cleary was born in the West Derby district of Liverpool 26 October 1902 .[1] He was educated at Holy Trinity School, Anfield and at Skerry's College, Liverpool. CareerCleary was appointed a Liverpool Justice of the Peace in 1927. A member of the Labour Party, he contested the East Toxteth by-election, 1929 and fought the seat again at the general election later that year, performing creditably in a safe Conservative seat. In the 1931 general election Cleary fought the West Derby division of Liverpool. This was a terrible year for Labour and his Conservative opponent trounced him by over 23,000 votes.[2] He was the councillor for Croxteth ward from 1925-1940. In 1934, Liverpool Wavertree's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Ronald Nall-Cain succeeded to the peerage, and Cleary was selected as the Labour candidate for the resulting by-election on 6 February 1935. With the Conservative vote split by the presence of Winston Churchill's son Randolph as an independent Conservative candidate, Cleary won the seat with the largest swing ever recorded between the Conservative and Labour parties.[2] At 30% (from Conservative to Labour) it remains unsurpassed to this day. Cleary's victory was to last just 281 days, making him one of the shortest-serving MPs of the 20th century. At the general election in November 1935, he lost by almost 8,000 votes in a straight fight with the Conservatives. Later lifeCleary was made an Alderman of Liverpool in 1941 and leader of the Labour group from 1935-48. He undertook lecture-tours to British Forces in the Middle East in 1945. Later that year he married Ethel McColl. He was Lord Mayor of Liverpool 1949-50. Twenty years after losing his seat in the House of Commons, he re-entered the fray to contest Liverpool Walton in the 1955 general election. This is the longest gap recorded of any former MP in trying to return to Parliament.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} He was unsuccessful, but did obtain a small swing against the national trend.[3] He was knighted in 1965 and made a Freeman of the City of Liverpool in 1970. Cleary served as a director of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board until 1970. He died in Garston on 9 February 1993, aged 90. Sir Joseph Cleary enjoyed one of the longest post-service lifespans of any former MP, at 57 years and 87 days. This record was broken in October 2002 by Horace Trevor-Cox.[4] See alsoList of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service
Notes and references1. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-joseph-cleary-1473610.html Obituary], The Independent {{S-start}}{{S-par|uk}}{{succession box2. ^1 {{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |origyear=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge55/i13.htm |title=UK General Election results May 1955 |publisher=Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources |accessdate=2007-10-04}} 4. ^Joseph Aloysius Sweeney was elected Sinn Féin member for West Donegal in 1918, aged 21. He did not take his seat in the House of Commons, but sat in the Dáil Éireann. He died in 1980, some 58 years after the last occasion in 1922 that he could have taken his seat. | title = Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree | years = February 1935–November 1935 | before = Ronald Nall-Cain | after = Peter Shaw }}{{S-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cleary, Joseph Jackson}} 7 : 1902 births|1993 deaths|Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|UK MPs 1931–35|Mayors of Liverpool|People educated at Skerry's College|Knights Bachelor |
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