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Francis Johnson (ILP politician)

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Name
  
Francis Johnson

Role
  
Politician

Francis Johnson (1878–1970) was a British socialist activist.

Johnson became active in the Independent Labour Party (ILP), and was the secretary of its Finsbury branch by 1899. In 1904, he was elected as the party's General Secretary. On 3 June 1917 he was appointed as joint secretary of the Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates at the convention to hail the Russian Revolution held at the Albert Hall, Leeds, alongside Albert Inkpin.

In 1924, Johnson switched to become Financial Secretary of the ILP, instead, and remained in post until his retirement in 1944. In retirement, he continued as a party activist, on a voluntary basis.

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