John David Mack, was a Labour Party

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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. He was a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) from 1942 to 1951.

He unsuccessfully contested the Wallasey constituency

Wallasey (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1929 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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 and at the 1931 election

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He did not contest the 1935 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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, but in 1942 he was elected unopposed at a by-election on 11th March

Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election, 1942

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 in the Newcastle-under-Lyme

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 constituency. The seat had been vacated when the sitting Labour MP Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood

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 was elevated to the peerage.

Mack represented the constituency until he stood down at the 1951 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1951

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