Adam Paterson Ingram

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Adam Paterson Ingram (born February 1, 1947 in Glasgow ) was Parliamentary Secretary of State for the Secretary of Defense of the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2007 .

Life

He attended Cranhill Senior Secondary School in a residential area in north Glasgow . He was a grade under Archy Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope a member of the Privy Council . He is a graduate of The Open University . From 1967 to 1977 he worked as a programmer. In 1970 he married Maureen McMahon. From 1977 to 1987 he was union secretary for the National and Local Government Officers Association, a union for local officials. From 1980 to 1987 he was an honorary justice of the peace and chaired the Labor Party in the constituency of East Kilbride. From 1980 to 1987 he was district administrator and from 1984 to 1987 head of the district council.

In 1983 he ran for the House of Commons in the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency. In the British general election in 1987 he ran for Labor and was elected. After Labor's 1997 election victory, Tony Blair appointed him Secretary of State in the Northern Ireland Office . He was the longest-serving Parliamentary Secretary of State to the Secretary of Defense in British history. He is a member of the British Privy Council .

On March 27, 2009, Ingram stated that he would not stand for election in the British general election on June 3, 2010.

In late April 2004, Ingram sued George Galloway and Penguin Books for defamation in Galloway's autobiography I'm Not The Only One . At the trial of the lawsuit, Ingram's lawyers had to admit that Ingram was a member of the band of the Orange Order : "kick the pope" for a year in the early 1960s, took part in three parades and played the flute, whereupon the court did decided that Ingram had to pay the costs .

According to research by the Sunday Times and Channel 4 , Ingram, like the former parliamentary state secretary to the Minister of Sport, had offered Richard Caborn political influence for a fee.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC Online March 28, 2009, Adam Ingram to stand down as MP
  2. ^ The Scotsman , April 28, 2004 Minister fails to stop Galloway sectarian claim
  3. ^ The Sunday Times, March 28, 2010, My fee? £ 2,500 a day ... plus expenses
personal data
SURNAME Ingram, Adam Paterson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow