Alexander Eadie known as Alex Eadie, is a British

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 Labour

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 politician.

Eadie was educated at Buckhaven

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 Senior Secondary School, Fife

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, and was a miners' agent. He served as a member of the Scottish

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 Labour Party

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 executive and as a councillor on Fife County Council, chairing the housing and education committees.

Eadie contested Ayr

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 in 1959 and 1964.

He was Member of Parliament

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 for Midlothian

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 from 1966 until he retired in 1992. He was junior minister for Energy during the Labour government of 1974 to 1979.

His daughter-in-law Helen Eadie

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 is a Member of the Scottish Parliament

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