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Mr James Sexton is a former MP for St Helens.

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Former MP for St Helens

Entered the House of Commons on 14 December 1918 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 7 October 1931 — General election

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Rigby Swift
• Thomas Glover
• Henry Seton-Karr

Future MPs in this constituency

• Richard Austin Spencer
• William Robinson
• Hartley Shawcross
• Leslie Spriggs

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance.: State Pensions. 24 Sep 1931

  70. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total amount paid in commutation of pensions to the descendants of deceased Army and Navy officers for the past 20 years; and what number of such descendants still remain on the pensions list contained in Finance Accounts?

• Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance.: State Pensions. 24 Sep 1931

  Can the hon. and gallant Gentleman express any hope that this will be included in the Economy Bill?

• Orders of the Day — Ways and Means.: Standard Rate of Tax for 1931–2 and Consequential Amendments of Law. 15 Sep 1931

  It is not the first time in my experience that I have found myself crossing swords with the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon), though not in a political but in a legal sense. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman will carry his mind back to the middle nineties, when one of his early legal briefs in company with the present Lord Chancellor was in opposition to...

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