About Sam Kyle
Lived 1884 – 1962 (aged 77–78). Sam Kyle was an Irish politician and trade unionist.
Samuel Kyle (7 November 1884 – 12 May 1962) was an Irish trade unionist and politician.
He was born into a Protestant family at 57 Riga Street in Belfast on 7 November 1884, he was the son of Samuel Kyle, a draper, and Jane Wilson. Kyle joined the Independent Labour Party. He became active in the Workers' Union, eventually becoming a full-time organiser for the union. At the 1918 general election, he stood in Belfast Shankill for the Belfast Labour Party. While unsuccessful, he was a prominent figure in the 1919 Belfast strike, and gained election to Belfast City Council in 1920. and sat as an Irish Labour Party member. He was re-elected in 1944, serving for five years in total.
He was married to Mary H. Kyle; and they had three sons and two daughters. He died on 12 May 1962 in Dublin, aged 77.
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Northern Irish politician
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Sam Kyle was born in 1884 in Belfast.
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