Sam Bullough

Sam Bullough (1909 – January 1973) was a British trade unionist.

Bullough was elected as Vice-President of the Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1954, and then as its President in 1960. In 1963, he was also elected as national Vice-President of the union.^[1]

His unexpected death left the post of president vacant, to be taken by the compensation agent, Arthur Scargill.

References

↑ Labour History Review, No.38-43, p.66

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Trade union offices
Preceded by Alwyn Machen	President of the Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers 1960–1973	Succeeded by Arthur Scargill
Preceded by Fred Collindridge	Vice President of the National Union of Mineworkers 1963–1969	Succeeded by Sid Schofield

Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)

Presidents	1889 Pickard 1904 Enoch Edwards 1912 Smillie 1922 Smith 1929 Richards 1931 Ebby Edwards 1932 Lee 1934 J. Jones 1939 Lawther 1954 Ernest Jones 1960 Machen 1960 Ford 1971 Gormley 1982 Scargill 2002 Lavery 2012 Wilson

Vice-Presidents	1889 Woods 1909 Smillie 1912 Harvey 1914 House 1917 Smith 1922 Walsh 1924 Richards 1929 Ebby Edwards 1931 Lee 1932 J. Jones 1933 Davies 1934 Lawther 1939 Bowman 1950 Ernest Jones 1954 Edward Jones 1960 Collindridge 1963 Bullough 1969 Schofield 1973 McGahey 1987 Thompson 1989 Vacant 1992 Cave 2002 Stanley 2010 Wilson 2012 Thomas

General Secretaries	1889 Ashton 1919 Hodges 1924 Cook 1932 Ebby Edwards 1946 Horner 1959 Paynter 1968 Daly 1984 Heathfield 1992 Scargill 1992 Vacant? 2002 Kemp 2007 Kitchen

Treasurers	1889 Enoch Edwards 1904 Abraham 1918 Robson 1921 Richardson

MFGB affiliates	Bristol Cleveland Cumberland Derbyshire Durham Forest of Dean Kent Lancashire and Cheshire Leicestershire Midland Counties Northumberland North Wales Nottinghamshire Scotland (Fife and Kinross Lanarkshire) Somerset South Derbyshire South Wales Yorkshire

Strikes	1893 1912 1926 1972 1974 1984–1985