Barbara Castle Barbara Castle Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT ("née" Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989 and subsequently a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage in 1990. One of the most significant
Robert E. Lee Blackburn the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1904 and 1905, and served as clerk of the court of Powell County, Kentucky from 1906 to 1910. Blackburn was engaged in the insurance and stock brokerage business from 1910 through 1919. Blackburn moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1919 and continued in the insurance and brokerage business. He was also engaged in the oil development business. Blackburn was appointed a member of the Kentucky Board of Agriculture in 1926 and served until 1928. Blackburn was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1931). He was an unsuccessful