Education
Fletcher was educated at Fircroft College, Birmingham and was a trade union official
Fletcher was educated at Fircroft College, Birmingham and was a trade union official
He served as a councillor on Newcastle City Council from 1952 and chaired the North-Eastern Association for the Arts. Fletcher unsuccessfully contested Middlesbrough West at the 1959 general election. Fletcher"s Labour successor in the resulting by-election was Oswald O"Brien, who was Member of Parliament for just a matter of weeks before he lost to the Conservative Michael Fallon in the 1983 general election.
Ted Fletcher Court remains in the Haughton area of Darlington, as a memorial to Fletcher.
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In the 1964 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Darlington, and held the seat until his death in 1983, aged 71.
He was a member of the Tribune Group and was regarded as being broadly on the left of the Labour Party.