Adam McKinlay

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Adam Storey McKinlay ( 1887 - March 17, 1950 ) was a Scottish politician. He was assigned to the left wing of the Labor Party .

Political career

For the first time, the Labor politician McKinlay ran for elections at the national level in the 1929 general election. He ran in the Glasgow constituency of Glasgow Partick , which his party colleague Andrew Young was able to win for the first time in 1923 for the Labor Party. In the 1924 elections , however, he lost the mandate to the unionist George Broun-Lindsay . McKinlay was a woodworker and competed for the Labor Party in Glasgow Partick. He narrowly prevailed against Broun-Lindsay and moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . He represented the constituency for two years until he was defeated by the unionist Charles MacAndrew in the 1931 general election.

The Labor MP for the constituency Dumbartonshire , Thomas Cassells , died in 1941 before the end of the voting period. For this reason, by-elections were scheduled in this constituency, in which McKinlay represented the Labor Party. He clearly prevailed against the communist Malcolm MacEwen and thus won a seat in the House of Commons for the second time. McKinlay was only just able to assert himself against the unionist Robert Allan in the subsequent general election in 1945 .

As a result of constituency reform, the Dumbartonshire constituency was dissolved at the end of the term. For the general election in 1950 McKinlay ran in the successor constituency of West Dunbartonshire . Although his health was bad, he won the elections. McKinlay passed away less than a month later. His party colleague Tom Steele narrowly won the necessary by-elections .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam McKinlay in Hansard (English)
  2. ^ D. Reynolds: In Command of History , 2012.
  3. ↑ RS Churchill, M. Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill , Houghton Mifflin, 1966, p. 188. ISBN 978-0-3954-1918-2 .
  4. ^ The Constitutional Year Book 1935, p. 261.
  5. ↑ Results of the 1931 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  6. ^ T. Royle: A Time of Tyrants: Scotland and the Second World War , Birlinn, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8579-0094-4
  7. ^ Results of the lower house elections in 1945 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  8. ↑ Der Spiegel: As with Toto , May 11, 1950.
  9. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1950 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  10. ^ CR Dod, RP Dod: Dod's Parliamentary Companion , Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd., 1967, p. 429.

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personal data
SURNAME McKinlay, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McKinlay, Adam Storey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1950