Samuel Finney

Samuel Finney (1857 – 14 April 1935) Labour Party politician United Kingdom.

He first stood for parliament defending a Labour seat at Hanley in 1912, but came third, losing the seat to the Liberal candidate.

Hanley by-election, 1912
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Robert Leonard Outhwaite	6,647	46.4
	Conservative	George Herman Rittner	5,993	41.8
	Labour	Samuel Finney	1,694	11.8
Majority			654	4.6
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing
Turnout

He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Staffordshire at a by-election in 1916, following the death of Labour MP Albert Stanley.

When that constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election, he was returned to Parliament for the new Burslem constituency. He did not contest the 1922 general election, when Andrew MacLaren held the seat for the Labour Party. He had four daughters: the son of the eldest went on to become Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, David Chilton Phillips; the youngest son of the youngest daughter is Stephen R.L. Clark.

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Albert Stanley	Member of Parliament for North West Staffordshire 1916–1918	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Burslem 1918–1922	Succeeded by Andrew MacLaren
Trade union offices
Preceded by Margaret Bondfield and Frederick Hall	Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour 1919 With: Margaret Bondfield	Succeeded by Jack Jones and J. W. Ogden

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