Mildred Gordon (politician)

Mildred Gordon (politician)

Mildred Gordon, née Fellerman, (born 24 August 1923) is a British Labour politician.

Biography

Mildred was born in Stepney in 1923 and lived in The Highway. Mildred attended Betts Street and Christian Street Schools before attending [[Raine's Foundation School|Raines School. Her father and grandfather had stalls in Watney Market. Her father also served as a Councillor on Stepney Borough Council. She became a teacher in 1945 and her first post was at Nicholas Gibson School in The Highway, Stepney. Mildred left teaching in 1985.

She married Trotskyist Sam Gordon in 1948, becoming active in the Revolutionary Communist Party. Mildred and Sam had one son, David. Sam Gordon died in 1982, and Mildred later remarried. Her second husband Nils Dahl, was at one time Trotsky's bodyguard during his exile in Norway.

Before being elected to Parliament Mildred had been a school governor, governor of Hackney College, and a visiting typewriting teacher, retraining women in Holloway prison. Mildred had also been the advisor on older women to the GLC's Women's Committee, during Ken Livingstone's tenure as Leader of the GLC.

A lifetime Labour Party activist, Mildred had been a Labour candidate for Hendon Council, the Greater London Council and the European Parliament. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bow and Poplar in 1987, with a majority in excess of 4,000 despite a strong showing from the Liberal Democrats who had won Tower Hamlets Council the year before. She retired at the 1997 general election.

Mildred has the Freedom of the Borough of Tower Hamlets and founded The Tower Hamlets School's Public Speaking Competition in 1987.

In 2006, Mildred opened a new block of flats called Thirza House in Shadwell for older people, that was built by Tower Hamlets Community Housing (THCH), a local Housing Association, which was in the south-west corner of her old constituency.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Ian Mikardo
Member of Parliament for Bow and Poplar
19871997
Constituency abolished

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