Jack Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath

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John Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath (7 June 1908 – 2 September 1988) was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader.

He was mentored by his Uncle, Charles Dukes (Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston) the drafter of the United Nations Human Rights Act for the United Kingdom.

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.

On 11 July 1966, he was made a life peer as Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath, of Stockton Heath in the County Palatine of Chester.

References

"No. 44051". The London Gazette. 12 July 1966. p. 7828.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Jack Cooper

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byJohn Wilmot	Member of Parliament for Deptford 1950–1951	Succeeded bySir Leslie Plummer
Trade union offices
Preceded byTom Cochrane	Southern District Secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers 1944–1962	Succeeded byFred Walker
Preceded byWilliam E. Hopkin	Chairman of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers 1952–1962	Succeeded byBernard Swindell
Preceded byTom Williamson	General Secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers 1962–1973	Succeeded byDavid Basnett
Preceded byWilliam Carron and George Lowthian	Trades Union Congress representative to the AFL-CIO 1967 With: Harry Nicholas	Succeeded bySidney Greene and George Smith
Preceded bySidney Greene	President of the Trades Union Congress 1971	Succeeded byGeorge Smith

v t e GMB
General Secretaries	1924: Will Thorne 1934: Charles Dukes 1946: Tom Williamson 1962: Jack Cooper 1973: David Basnett 1986: John Edmonds 2003: Kevin Curran 2005: Paul Kenny 2016: Tim Roache 2021: Gary Smith
Deputy and Assistant General Secretaries	1924: Peter Tevenan and Ralph Spence 1933: Ralph Spence 1935: Abolished 1991: Tom Burlison 1996: Steve Pickering 2003: Debbie Coulter 2008: Vacant
Presidents	1924: J. R. Clynes 1938: Fred Marshall 1946: T. W. Kerry 1949: William E. Hopkin 1952: Jack Cooper 1962: Bernard Swindell 1964: Charles Smith 1970: Alex M. Donnet 1976: Derek Gladwin 1982: Dick Pickering 1987: James Morrell 1988: Olga Mean 1992: Dick Pickering 1996: Mary Turner 2018: Barbara Plant
Forerunners	Municipal Employees' Association National Amalgamated Union of Labour National Union of General Workers
Other topics	Uber BV v Aslam GMB National College

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