Peter Jackson (politician)

{{Short description|British Labour Party politician (1928–2020)}}

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| name = Peter Michael Jackson

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| term_end4 = 1970

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| birth_place = Sheffield, England

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Peter Michael Jackson (14 October 1928 – 19 February 2020) was a British Labour Party politician.

Jackson was born in Sheffield in October 1928, and was educated at Sheffield Grammar School, Durham University, and University College, Leicester. He was married to Christine Thomas from 1961 to 1979.

At the 1966 general election, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for the High Peak constituency in Derbyshire, ending nearly 56 years of Conservative dominance and was the first ever Labour Party MP for the seat. Jackson sat in the House of Commons for only four years, and lost his seat at the 1970 general election, to the Conservative Spencer Le Marchant. He was the enthusiastic secretary of the Humanist Parliamentary Group from 1967 to 1970.

Jackson was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.{{cite web|title=Oral history: JACKSON, Peter (b.1928)|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/oral-history/member/jackson-peter-1928|publisher=The History of Parliament|access-date=14 July 2016}}{{cite web|title=Peter Jackson interviewed by Sandy Ruxton|url=http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/The-History-of-Parliament-Oral-History-Project/021M-C1503X0046XX-0001V0|publisher=British Library Sound Archive|access-date=26 January 2018}}

He died in February 2020 at the age of 91.{{cite web |title=Peter Jackson obituary |date=2020-05-01 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510181211/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/01/peter-jackson-obituary |archive-date=2023-05-10 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/01/peter-jackson-obituary}}[https://sslh.org.uk/2020/04/28/peter-michael-jackson-1928-2020/ Peter Jackson obituary]