Background
Messer was born in north London, and was the son of a poor law officer
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Frederick Messer
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He was educated at Thornhill Primary School, Islington before entering an apprenticeship as a French polisher.
Career
He subsequently changed his career, becoming national organiser of the Industrial Orthopaedic Society. He was elected as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Tottenham South at the 1929 general election. Two years later another election was held and Messer was defeated in a straight fight with the National Labour candidate, Francis Palmer The situation was reversed when he regained the seat from Palmer at the next general election in 1935.
He held the seat until its abolition in 1950, and was Member of Parliament for the successor seat of Tottenham from 1950 until his retirement from parliament in 1959.
He was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in 1948 "for political and public services" and knighted in 1953. Foreign 15 years he was chairman of the Labour group on the council, and in 1938 was elevated to become an alderman.
Politics
A Bevanite, in 1958 he became the first president of Victory for Socialism, a left-wing ginger group within the Labour Party.
Membership
35th United Kingdom Parliament. 37th United Kingdom Parliament. 38th United Kingdom Parliament.
39th United Kingdom Parliament.
40th United Kingdom Parliament. 41st United Kingdom Parliament]
He was a member of the House of Commons and Chairman of Middlesex County Council.
He became one of the first members of the French Polishers Union. As well as serving in parliament, he was for many years a member of Middlesex County Council.
He served as chairman of the council from 1947 to 1948, the first member of the Labour Party to hold the chairman
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Political Party
Labour Party