Jack Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath
John Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath (7 June 1908 – 2 September 1988), known as Jack Cooper, was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader.
At the 1950 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Deptford, but stood down from the House of Commons at the 1951 general election.
From 1961 to 1973 he was general secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
In July 1966, he was made a life peer as Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath, of Stockton Heath in the County Palatine of Chester.
References
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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