James Haslam

{{Short description|British politician}} {{For|the American businessmen|Jim Haslam|Jimmy Haslam}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use British English|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = James Haslam | honorific_suffix =MP | image = James Haslam by Trevor Haddon.jpg | image_size = 150px | constituency_MP = Chesterfield | parliament = United Kingdom | predecessor = Alfred Barnes }} '''James Haslam''' (1 April 1842 – 31 July 1913) was a British politician, representing Chesterfield as an MP from 1906 to 1913

Before entering Parliament in 1906, Haslam had been a founder member<ref>[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/james-haslam-18421913-mp-for-chesterfield-19061913-founder-member-and-secretary-of-the-derbyshire-miners-association-1880-61392 painting], Haddon, BBC, retrieved 28 July 2014</ref> and served as a leading official of the Derbyshire Miners’ Association (DMA) since its inception some 30 years earlier. He was returned in 1906 as a Liberal candidate, but won the two General Elections of 1910 as a Labour candidate.<ref name="craig1885-1918">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |orig-date=1974 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 }}</ref>

He died in 1913 in Chesterfield aged 71.

He currently has a statue outside the former Miner's Offices on Saltergate at Chesterfield.

==References== {{reflist}} *J. E. Williams, ''The Derbyshire Miners A Study in Industrial and Social History'', 1962

== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-james-haslam | James Haslam }}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Chesterfield | years = 1906–1913 | before = Thomas Bayley | after = Barnet Kenyon }} {{s-npo|union}} {{succession box | title = Secretary of the Derbyshire Miners' Association | years = 1881–1913 | before = ''New position'' | after = W. E. Harvey }} {{succession box|title=Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour|years=1899|with=Alexander Wilkie|before=William Inskip and Will Thorne|after=Pete Curran and John Weir}} {{succession box | title = President of the Trades Union Congress | years = 1910 | before = David Shackleton | after = William Mullin }} {{s-end}}

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