Millie Miller Explained

Millie Miller
Constituency Mp:Ilford North
Term Start:10 October 1974
Term End:29 October 1977
Primeminister:Harold Wilson
Predecessor:Tom Iremonger
Successor:Vivian Bendall
Birth Date:1922 4, df=yes
Party:Labour

Millie Miller (8 April 1922 – 29 October 1977) was a British Labour Party politician.

Miller was elected a councillor in Stoke Newington in 1945. She was Mayor of Stoke Newington for the 1957/58 municipal year.[1] When the London Borough of Camden was created in 1965 she was elected to represent the Euston ward.[2] She became the first woman mayor of Camden in the 1967/68 municipal year.[1] In 1971 she was elected to represent the Grafton ward. She became the first woman to lead a London borough council when she became leader of Camden Council in 1971, remaining in the post until 1973.[1]

After coming second to the Conservative incumbent Thomas Iremonger in her first bid to become Member of Parliament for Ilford North in the February 1974 general election, Miller won the seat the following October. In 1977, she died in office at the age of 55. Her successor in the subsequent by-election was the Conservative Vivian Bendall.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Miller, Mrs Millie, (1923–29 Oct. 1977), MP (Lab) Redbridge, Ilford North, since October 1974; social worker . WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO . 7 July 2024 . en . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u157567.
  2. Web site: Thoroughly Modernising Millie Miller - caring, conserving, constructing Camden: a talk by Bernard Miller. Camden History Society. 16 June 2022. 16 October 2023.