Samuel March (1861-10 August 1935) was a British

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official and Labour Party politician active in the Poplar area of London. A member of Poplar Borough Council from 1906 until 1927, he was Mayor of Poplar in 1920–21. During his mayoral term he was jailed for taking part in the

Poplar Rates Rebellion The Poplar Rates Rebellion, or Poplar Rates Revolt, was a tax protest that took place in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, England, in 1921. It was led by George Lansbury, the previous year's Labour Mayor of Poplar, with the support of the P ...

. He stood for parliament for the constituency of Poplar South at the 1918 general election but was not elected. At the next general election in 1922 he was elected to the

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and held the seat at the next three elections, standing down in 1931. He was also a member of the

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for Poplar South from 1919 to 1925. He died at his home in

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aged 74.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:March, Samuel 1861 births 1935 deaths UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of London County Council Members of Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council Mayors of places in Greater London Transport and General Workers' Union-sponsored MPs