Stephen Walsh

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Stephen Walsh (1859 – March 16, 1929) was a Labour Party MP and a member of David Lloyd George's Coalition Government as a Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Service in 1917 and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board from 1917 to 1919.

He started work as a coal miner at the age of 14. He was an official of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation before he was elected in 1906 for Ince.

Walsh stood in the 1918 election as a Coalition Labour candidate opposed by the official Labour Party. He was Vice-President of National Union of Mineworkers from 1922 to 1924 until he was appointed by Ramsay MacDonald as Secretary of State for War.

[edit] Family

One of Walsh's sons died in World War I.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell	Member of Parliament for Ince 1906–1929	Succeeded by Gordon MacDonald
Political offices
Preceded by Herbert Smith	Vice-President of the National Union of Mineworkers 1922–1924	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Earl of Derby	Secretary of State for War Jan-Nov 1924	Succeeded by Sir Laming Worthington-Evans