1. John Wheatley was a Scottish socialist politician.
13 Facts About John Wheatley
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John Wheatley was a prominent figure of the Red Clydeside era.
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John Wheatley then started a successful printing business, which published leftist political works.
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John Wheatley wrote many of them, including How the Miners Were Robbed, The Catholic Workingman, Miners, Mines and Misery, Eight Pound Cottages for Glasgow Citizens, Municipal Banking and The New Rent Act.
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John Wheatley was a deeply religious man and a practising Roman Catholic.
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John Wheatley founded and was the first chairman of the Catholic Socialist Society.
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John Wheatley was a great supporter of Celtic Football Club.
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Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald sometimes disapproved of John Wheatley's debating methods, as well as his friendship with James Maxton.
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John Wheatley was known as the intellectual behind the ILP activities.
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John Wheatley remained a widely respected political figure and when MacDonald became Prime Minister in January 1924, he appointed John Wheatley as his Minister of Health.
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John Wheatley is best remembered for his Housing Act 1924, which saw a massive expansion in affordable municipal housing for the working class.
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John Wheatley held strong views against birth control and refused to support the campaign.
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John Wheatley refused to support many of the measures proposed by MacDonald's government.