Arthur Champion, Baron Champion

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Arthur Joseph Champion, Baron Champion PC JP (born July 26, 1897 in Glastonbury , Somerset , † March 2, 1985 in Pontypridd , Wales ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for fourteen years and in 1962 as Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

After attending school, Champion did his military service during the First World War and then began working as a railroad employee.

In the general election on July 5, 1945 Champion was elected as a candidate of the Labor Party for the first time MPs in the House of Commons by the constituency Derbyshire Southern incumbent constituency owner of the Conservative Party , Paul Emrys-Evans , with a majority of almost 23,000 votes hit. After a constituency reform, he was re-elected MP in the general election on February 23, 1950 in the Derbyshire South East constituency and represented this constituency until he was only twelve votes different in the general election on October 8, 1959 against John Jackson , the candidate of the Conservative Tories , lost.

After Champion was Parliamentary Private Secretary from 1949 to 1951, he served from April to October 1951 in the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries , Tom Williams .

By a Letters Patent of May 11, 1962 Champion was the temporarily also magistrate ( Justice of the Peace ) was when life peer with the title Baron Champion , of Pontypridd in the County of Glamorgan in the peerage charged and was therefore up to on his death as a member of the House of Lords.

After the Labor Party won the general election on October 15, 1964 , Baron Champion was appointed Minister without Portfolio by Prime Minister Harold Wilson and held this position until 1967. In 1967 he was also appointed Privy Councilor .

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SURNAME Champion, Arthur, Baron Champion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Champion, Arthur Joseph, Baron Champion (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Glastonbury , Somerset
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1985
Place of death Pontypridd , Wales