Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones
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Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones (21 January 1879 – 26 August 1970) was a British politician and miner.
The son of a Welsh miner, who later died in the mines, Jones rose up the ranks of the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 to become Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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 for Pontypridd
Pontypridd (UK Parliament constituency)
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 in 1922.

Rail Vouchers

In December 1930 Jones gave his wife and 12-year-old daughter a pair of Commons rail vouchers, which they were caught using. Jones was taken to court and fined. He was de-selected by his local Labour Party but contested the 1931 General Election as an Independent Labour candidate. He lost his seat, only polling 1,110 votes and finished in third place.

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