Tom Kennedy (UK politician)

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Thomas Kennedy PC (1876 – 3 March 1954) was a Scottish Labour politician.

He was General Secretary of the Social Democratic Federation, and editor of the Social Democrat.

He was Labour Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy from 1921-1922, from 1923-1931 and from 1935-1944 and was Scottish Labour Whip in 1921-1922 and from 1923-1925. He served in Govenrment as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in 1924, in opposition as Deputy Chief Whip (1925-1927) and Chief Whip of the Labour Party (1927-1931) and again in Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1929-1931.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1931.

Preceded by:
Bolton Eyres-Monsell		 Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
1929–1931		 Succeeded by:
David Margesson
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