Constance Mary Monks born Constance Mary Green was a British

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 Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician, teacher and partner with her husband in a newspaper business.

Education

She was educated in Leeds

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, Yorkshire

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 at the Leeds

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 City Teacher Training College).

Political career

She was a councillor on Chorley

Chorley

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 Borough Council from 1947-67 during which time she was Mayor

Mayor

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 from 1959-60. She was also a councillor on Lancashire County Council

Lancashire County Council

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 from 1961–64).

Monks was elected on her second attempt as Member of Parliament

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 for Chorley constituency

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 in 1970, but lost in February 1974 to the Labour candidate

Labour Party (UK)

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 George Rodgers

George Rodgers (UK politician)

George Rodgers was a British Labour Party politician.Rodgers was Member of Parliament for the marginal Chorley seat from 1974 to 1979, when he lost to the Conservative Den Dover.- External links :...

. Monks was the first, and so far the only, female MP for Chorley.

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