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Before entering parliament he was a Trade Union organiser of the National Union Of Public Employees (which later became part of UNISON ). From 1929 to 1949 he was a councillor on Walthamstow Borough Council , and in 1945 - 1946 he was Mayor of Walthamstow . He was first elected to Parliament in the 1945 general election for the Chatham division of Rochester and he held the seat (later renamed Rochester And Chatham ) until losing it in the 1959 general election. He returned to parliament by winning Middlesbrough East in a by-election in 1962 and held the seat, later renamed Teesside Middlesbrough , until his retirement in 1983 . He was a junior minister in Clement Atlee 's governments, being Parliamentary Under-Secretary Of State For Dominion Affairs (1946-47), Parliamentary Under-Secretary Of State For Commonwealth Relations (1947) and Secretary For Overseas Trade at the Board Of Trade (1947-51). In Harold Wilson 's governments he was Secretary Of State For Commonwealth Affairs (1964-66) - during which time he sought to deal with the consequences of Rhodesia 's Unilateral Declaration Of Independence - and Minister Of Overseas Development (1966-67). He was created a Life Peer in the 1984 New Year's Honours as Baron Bottomley ''of Middlesbrough in the County of Cleveland''. He died on 3 November 1995 .
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