George James Wardle OCH (15 May 1865 - 18 June 1947) was a British politician. He was editor of the Railway Review[1] and in 1906 was elected a Labour Member of Parliament for Stockport. At the 1916 Labour Party conference he made a speech which resulted in the conference passing resolutions as to the party stand on World War I, something the party leader Ramsay MacDonald had failed to establish.[1] He was a founding member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1917, and between 1917 and 1919 he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. In the 1918 General Election he stood, and was elected as, a Coalition Labour candidate. He resigned as a Member of Parliament on 9 March 1920 by becoming Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.
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| Preceded by Joseph Leigh Beresford Valentine Melville |
Member of Parliament for Stockport 1906 – 1920 With: James Duckworth 1906–1910 Spencer Leigh Hughes 1910–1920 |
Succeeded by William Greenwood Henry Fildes |
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| Preceded by George Henry Roberts |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade 1917 – 1919 |
Succeeded by William Bridgeman |