Title: Gordon Marsden
Content:  Gordon Marsden (born 28 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Blackpool South from 1997 to 2019.
Title: Gordon Marsden
Content:  Marsden first contested the seat of Blackpool South in 1992 and won it in 1997. Once elected to Parliament, Gordon served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Irvine of Lairg in the Lord Chancellor's Department (2001–03), Tessa Jowell as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2003–05) and John Denham as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and shadow communities secretary (2009–10). In 2003, he was made a Visiting Parliamentary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He sat as a member of the House of Commons Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee and Education and Skills Select Committee, before it was dissolved in 2007. In May 2010, Marsden was given his first shadow ministerial brief, by acting leader Harriet Harman, as 
Title: Marton, Blackpool
Content:  Marton is an electoral ward in the borough constituency of Blackpool South. Since 1997, Blackpool South had been represented at parliament by Labour MP Gordon Marsden. Since the 2019 General Election the area's representation has passed to Conservative MP Scott Benton.
Title: Blackpool South (UK Parliament constituency)
Content:  This seat was created for the 1945 general election. This marginal constituency has been represented by both the Conservative and Labour Party parties since the Second World War. It was held by the Conservatives until 1997, when Gordon Marsden, gained it for Labour. He represented the seat for the next 22 years but was defeated in 2019 by the Conservative Scott Benton.
Title: Gordon Marsden
Content:  Marsden convened the first group of Labour MPs representing seaside and coastal towns. In 2007 Gordon was asked to chair a Manifesto Group for the Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Seaside and Coastal Towns.
Title: Gordon Marsden
Content:  Marsden is gay. In early 2009, Gordon was named as one of the Daily Telegraph's expenses "saints", due to the low levels of his expenses claims.
Title: Paul Marsden
Content:  Paul William Barry Marsden (born 18 March 1968) is a British writer, businessman and former politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shrewsbury and Atcham from 1997 until 2005. He was most prominently known for his anti-war views and crossing the floor twice (the first to do so since Winston Churchill ), from Labour to the Liberal Democrats in 2001 and returning to Labour in 2005. He instructed a solicitor in 2010 to begin action for phone hacking that allegedly took place back in 2003 by a newspaper. In 2012, Marsden was appointed to draft the parliamentary inquiry report into VIP security at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. Currently Marsden is Head of Business Intelligence at the construction company MWH Global.
Title: William Marsden (footballer, born 1871)
Content:  William Fish Marsden (20 June 1871 – 1943) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Darwen. Marsden scored a consolation goal for Darwen in the 3-1 1891 Lancashire Cup Final defeat against Blackpool at Anfield.
Title: Frank Marsden
Content:  served at Alldritt's agent. In Parliament, Marsden was a strong supporter of comprehensive schools. Marsden's constituency was merged with the neighbouring Liverpool Exchange for the February 1974 general election, and Robert Parry won the selection for the new Liverpool Scotland Exchange seat. Marsden returned to his job at the GPO. He remained a loyal supporter of the Labour Party, and was later elected as a councillor on Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Merseyside County Council. He disagreed with the Militant tendency in the 1980s. His wife died in 2001, but Marsden was survived by their three sons. He died in Liverpool.
Title: Billy Marsden
Content:  William Marsden (10 November 1901 – 19 September 1983) was an English international footballer, who played as a left half, and later managed Doncaster Rovers.

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": When was Gordon Marsden a leader of Blackpool?
Answer: True