Clyde Tabor Wilson was a British Conservative Party

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 politician.

At the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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, he was elected Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Liverpool West Toxteth

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, winning the seat with a large majority over the sitting Labour Party

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 MP, Joseph Gibbins

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. This was Wilson's second attempt to enter Parliament

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 — he had unsuccessfully contested the 1929 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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 in the Labour-held London constituency of Lambeth North

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 — but he served less than four years in the House of Commons

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, resigning his seat

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 in 1935 to become a Metropolitan Police

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 magistrate. At the resulting by-election in July 1935, Gibbins regained the seat.

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