Walter Padley

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Walter Ernest Padley (24 July 1916 - 15 April 1984) was a British politician.

Padley was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford with a TUC scholarship. He was president of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers 1948-64.

Padley's first parliamentary contest was at the 1943 by-election in Acton, in which he was an Independent Labour Party (ILP) candidate. In 1950 he was elected Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ogmore and served until 1979, preceding Sir Raymond Powell. He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1964 to 1967 and Labour Party chairman from 1965 to 1966, having been on the National Executive Committee from 1956.

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• Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.