Norah Runge

Norah Runge

OBE
Norah Runge; OBE
Member of Parliament; for Rotherhithe
	In office; 27 October 1931 – 13 November 1935
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Ben Smith
Succeeded by	Ben Smith
Personal details
Born	Norah Cecil Runge; 1884
Died	6 June 1978 (aged 93–94)
Political party	Conservative

Norah Cecil Runge, OBE (1884 – 6 June 1978) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.

Career[]

Runge was elected Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe in the 1931 Conservative landslide, gaining the seat from Labour incumbent Benjamin Smith. Runge held the seat until 1935, when it was regained by Smith.

She was subsequently created an alderman on London County Council in 1937, remaining a member of the council until 1961.^[1]^[2]

Runge currently holds the record of the longest-lived female MP in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}

Windowbill from the 1931 UK General Election in support of Mrs Runge and the National Government.

^ "The New L.C.C.". The Times. 9 March 1937. p. 13.
^ Hutton, Marceline J (2001). Russian and West European women, 1860-1939: dreams, struggles, and nightmares. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-7425-1044-9.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Ben Smith	Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe 1931 – 1935	Succeeded by Ben Smith

This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1880s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

Norah Runge OBE


Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe
In office 27 October 1931 – 13 November 1935
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Ben Smith
Succeeded by	Ben Smith

Personal details
Born	Norah Cecil Runge 1884 (1884)
Died	6 June 1978(1978-06-06) (aged 93–94)
Political party	Conservative