Background
Mildred Gordon was born in Stepney in 1923 and lived in The Highway. Her father and grandfather were stallholders in Watney Market. Her father also served as a Councillor on Stepney Borough Council.
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Mildred GORDON
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Raines Foundation School, Stepney. Pitman’s College of Commerce. Forest Training College, Walthamstow.
Emergency Teacher Training College.
Career
Gordon left teaching in 1985. The Gordons had one son, David. Sam Gordon died in 1982, and Mildred Gordon herself later remarried.
Her second husband Nils Dahl, was at one time Trotsky"s bodyguard during his exile in Norway.
Before being elected to Parliament, Gordon had been a school governor, governor of Hackney College, and a visiting typewriting teacher, retraining women in Holloway prison. Gordon had also been the adviser on older women to the Greater London Council"s Women"s Committee, during Ken Livingstone"s tenure as Leader of the Greater London Council. A long time Labour Party activist, Gordon had been a Labour candidate for Hendon Council, the Greater London Council and the European Parliament.
She was deselected in favour of Jim Fitzpatrick at the 1997 general election. Gordon has the Freedom of the Borough of Tower Hamlets and founded The Tower Hamlets Schools" Public Speaking Competition in 1987.
In 2006, Gordon opened a new block of flats called Thirza House in Shadwell for older people, which was built by Tower Hamlets Community Housing (THCH), a local Housing Association based in the south-west corner of her former constituency.
Politics
She was elected Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Bow and Poplar in 1987, with a majority in excess of 4,000 despite a strong showing from the Liberal Democrats who had won Tower Hamlets Council the year before.
Membership
50th United Kingdom Parliament. 51st United Kingdom Parliament.
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