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Terry Davis
The Right Honourable Terry Davis (born January 5, 1938) is a British politician, and former Member of Parliament for the Labour Party for the Birmingham, Hodge Hill constituency. He is a member of the Privy Council.
He contested the seat of Bromsgrove in 1970, was successful in the same seat in a by-election in 1971 but lost the changed seat of Bromsgrove and Redditch in the February 1974 General Election. In 1977 he contested a by-election in Birmingham Stetchford , in 1979 he won this seat, and from 1983, after boundary changes, represented the seat now known as Hodge Hill.
In June 2004 he was elected secretary general of the Council of Europe and announced his intention to stand down from the UK parliament, by applying for the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. The resulting by-election was held on July 15 and won by Liam Byrne.
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