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Walter Henry Green CBE, (1878 – 13 April 1958) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician for Deptford, elected in 1935 and MP until 1945.[1] He became a councillor in Deptford in 1909, its mayor 1920–1922, and in 1944 became the first freeman of the borough. Later he became a member of the Metropolitan Water Board 1946–1953, and was appointed the C.B.E. Order of the British Empire in 1949.[2]
Between 1920–1922, he was Mayor of Deptford.[3] As part of his duties, on 22 March 1921, he unveiled the First World War memorial.[4]
Walter Green was elected Member of Parliament in the 1935 General Election, in which he gained the seat for Labour, with a majority of 6,892 (14.62%) over Conservative Prospective parliamentary candidate, Sir Malcolm Campbell, the then land and water speed record holder.[5]
Between 1935–1947, he was Political Secretary of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society,[6] the only Co-operative Society to be affiliated to the Labour Party nationally.[7]
Between 1941–42 he was chairman of the Labour Party.[6]
He married Grace Edith Puddlefoot in 1904,[8] and together had a son and a daughter.[2]
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