About Gordon Oakes
Lived 1931 – 2005 (aged 74). Gordon Oakes was a British politician.
Gordon James Oakes (22 June 1931 – 14 August 2005) was a British Labour Party politician.
Early life Oakes was born in Widnes, Cheshire, and was educated at Wade Deacon Grammar School, in Widnes and at Liverpool University. A solicitor by profession, he became a councillor on Widnes Borough Council in 1952, serving as Mayor in 1964. Also in 1979, he was made a member of the Privy Council. Oakes left the Opposition front bench in 1983.
He was one of the MPs approached in the 1994 Cash-for-questions affair, to which he responded "That is not how we do things here".
Personal life and death Oakes was married to the former Esther O'Neill from 1952 until her death in 1998; they had three sons. He died on 14 August 2005, at the age of 74.
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British politician (1931-2005)
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Gordon Oakes was born on 22 June 1931 in Widnes.
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Gordon Oakes died on 15 August 2005.
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