Reverend Campbell Stephen (1884 – 25 October 1947) was a

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socialist politician. A native of

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, he was educated at Townhead Public School,

Allan Glen's School Allan Glen's School was, for most of its existence, a State school, local authority, selective Secondary education, secondary school for boys in Glasgow, Scotland, charging nominal fees for tuition. It was founded by the Allan Glen's Endowment ...

and

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. He worked first as United Free Church Minister and then as a

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. He resigned his charge at the

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, Ayrshire in 1918 to contest

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in the same year. He was

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Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Camlachie from November 1922 to 1931 and from 1935 until his death. He was one of

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's closest political allies within the Independent Labour Party and supported Maxton both in his attempts to foster closer relations with the Communist Party and also during the disaffiliation debate in the early 1930s. Despite his strong support for ILP independence from the Labour Party when Maxton was alive, Stephen resigned the ILP whip to sit as an Independent from July 1947, and rejoined the Labour Party in October, shortly before his death. His death sparked the

1948 Glasgow Camlachie by-election The 1948 Glasgow Camlachie by-election was held on Wednesday 28 January 1948, following the death of the sitting member of parliament, Campbell Stephen. Stephen was re-elected for the Independent Labour Party (ILP) at the 1945 general elect ...

. In 1945, he married

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, a former Labour Member of Parliament for

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