Tom Braddock

{{Short description|British politician (1887–1976)}}

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Thomas Braddock (1887 – 9 December 1976) was a British politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U152542 |title=BRADDOCK, Thomas |work=Who Was Who |publisher=A & C Black |date=1920–2008 |accessdate=2011-02-12}} He was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitcham from 1945 to 1950, when he was defeated by the Conservative Robert Carr.{{rayment-hc|M|3|date=March 2012}}

Before the war he had contested the very-Conservative Wimbledon seat in 1931 and 1935, being heavily beaten.

He subsequently stood, without success, for the Kingston-upon-Thames constituency in the 1959 and 1964 general elections, on both occasions failing to unseat the Conservative incumbent, John Boyd-Carpenter, and one final time in Wimbledon in 1966.