John Wilmot, 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston

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John Charles Wilmot, 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston PC (2 April 1895 – 22 July 1964) was a British Labour Party politician..

He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Fulham East at a by-election in 1933, but lost his seat the 1935 general election.

He returned to the House of Commons at another by-election, in 1939 as MP for Kennington. He was re-elected at the 1945 election for the Deptford constituency, before retiring from Parliament at the 1950 general election. He was then elevated to the peerage as Baron Wilmot of Selmeston; the title became extinct on his death in 1966.

In Clement Attlee's post-war government, he was Minister of Supply from 1945 to 1947, and was made a Privy Councillor in 1945.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan	Member of Parliament for Fulham East 1933–1935	Succeeded by William Waldorf Astor
Preceded by Sir George Harvey	Member of Parliament for Kennington 1939–1945	Succeeded by Charles William Gibson
Preceded by Walter Henry Green	Member of Parliament for Deptford 1945–1950	Succeeded by John Cooper
Political offices
Preceded by Andrew Duncan	Minister of Supply 1945–1947	Succeeded by George Strauss
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (new creation)	Baron Wilmot of Selmeston 1950–1964	Succeeded by (extinct)