David Hamilton (born October 24, 1950, Dalkeith) is a UK politician and LabourMember of Parliament for Midlothian since 2001. He is a member of the left-wing Socialist Campaign Group. October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dalkeith (Scottish Gaelic: Dail Cheith) (pop. ... The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Midlothian is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Socialist Campaign Group is a left wing grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the UK. The group is generally Eurosceptic and has many socially conservative members. ...
He was previously a coal miner, a trainer, and from 1992 to 2000, Chief executive of Craigmillar Opportunities. Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by deep mining, coal mining (open-pit mining or strip mining). ...
In 1872 Henry Buckingham Witton, a Hamilton carriage-maker, was elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative candidate, as was Alphonse-Télesphore Lépine, a Montréal leader of the KNIGHTS OF LABOR, in 1888.
Puttee is considered the first labour MP because he was elected both in a January by-election as well as the November general election.
Labour candidates had greater success at the provincial level, winning seats in Ontario, BC and Alberta before WWI, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and BC in 1920.
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