Jean Mann

Jean Mann JP (1889 – 21 March 1964), born Jean Stewart, was a Scottish Labour Party politician.

Mann was educated at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow and became an accountant. Married with five children, she was a councillor on Glasgow Corporation from 1931 to 1938, where she served as Housing convenor. She became Vice President of the Scottish Housing and Town Planning Association, and was a senior magistrate in Glasgow.

She unsuccessfully contested the Renfrewshire West constituency at the 1931 general election and again in 1935. However, in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, Mann was elected as Member of Parliament for Coatbridge.

After she had taken the oath, it was noticed that her position on the Rent Tribunals under the Rent of Furnished Houses Control (Scotland) Act 1943 was remunerated and that she therefore might hold an 'office of profit under the Crown' which would disqualify hier from election. A Select Committee was set up which reported that her election was invalid; a Bill was rushed through validating it and indemnifying her from the consequences of acting as an MP while disqualified.