James Alexander Lovat-Fraser (16 March 1868 – 18 March 1938) was a British Labour Party and then National Labour politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1929 to 1938.
He unsuccessfully contested Llandaff and Barry at the 1922 general election,[1] and Bristol Central at the 1924 general election.[2] He was elected at the 1929 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lichfield division of Staffordshire.When the Labour Party split in 1931 over the budget, Lovat-Fraser was one of the minority of Labour MPs who supported the Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in forming a National Government with Conservative Party support.[3] He was re-elected as a National Labour candidate in 1931and in 1935and held the seat until his death in March 1938, aged 70.
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