Brian Adam

Brian Adam (2007)

Brian Adam (born June 10, 1948 in Keith , † April 25, 2013 in Aberdeen ) was a Scottish politician , biochemist and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

Adam was born in Newmill , a hamlet about a kilometer north of Keith. He attended Keith Grammar School and then earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and a master's degree in pharmacology from the University of Aberdeen . After three years in quality control at the pharmaceutical company Glaxo in Montrose , Adam worked at two hospitals before his election to the Scottish Parliament , first at the Aberdeen City Hospital and then at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary . Adam was married and had five children. He lived in Aberdeen , was an active member of the Mormon parish and supporter of the football club Aberdeen FC . On the night of April 25, 2013 Adam succumbed to the consequences of a long-standing cancer. As a result, Adam's political life's work was recognized across parties. Brian Adam was buried in Aberdeen.

Political career

1988 Adam was for Middlefield in the district council of Aberdeen selected and confirmed 1,992th In 1995 he moved to the Aberdeen City Council for Middlefield and Heathryfold . He first appeared in the 1997 general election to national elections. In his constituency of Aberdeen North , Adam received only the second largest share of the vote with 21.8% behind the Labor candidate Malcolm Savidge (47.9%) and thus clearly missed the entry into the British House of Commons .

In the first elections to the newly founded Scottish Parliament in 1999, Adam ran as a direct candidate for the SNP in the Aberdeen North constituency , which was congruent with the constituency of the same name for the British House of Commons, in which he had run unsuccessfully two years earlier. He was defeated by Labor politician Elaine Thomson and missed the direct mandate. Compared to the previous general election, however, Adam succeeded in reducing the Labor Party's lead in this constituency from around 10,000 to 398. Since Adam was set in addition to his direct candidacy in Aberdeen North as a list candidate on the third place of the regional electoral list of the SNP for the electoral region North East Scotland , he moved as one of seven representatives of the electoral region in the Scottish Parliament as a result of the election result. In the subsequent elections for the second legislative term , Adam finally won the direct mandate for Aberdeen North with a lead of 457 votes over Thomson and defended it in the elections in 2007 . In the course of constituency reform in 2011, the constituency of Aberdeen North was dissolved. In the 2011 parliamentary elections , Adam therefore applied for the direct mandate of the newly created constituency of Aberdeen Donside , in which large parts of his former constituency were absorbed. He won the mandate with a 55.4% share of the vote and thus a clear lead over Labor candidate Barney Crockett , who won 28.5% of the vote.

In the shadow cabinet of the SNP after the parliamentary elections in 2003, Brian Adam was initially designated as Deputy Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning. After a change in September 2004 he was Deputy Minister of Tourism. After the parliamentary elections in 2007, Adam was appointed whip of the SNP faction in the Scottish Parliament and led it through a difficult legislative period in which the party led a minority government with only around 36% of the seats. Adam already held the position of Deputy Whip in the first legislative period. Following the 2011 general election, Adam was named Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs under Minister Bruce Crawford . In September 2012, Adam gave up office to Joe FitzPatrick . In the constituency of Aberdeen Donside, in which Brian Adam held the direct mandate, new elections to determine a successor were required after his death, as required in such a case. This was won by the SNP candidate Mark McDonald despite massive loss of votes.

Web links

• Own web presence ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
• Information on the Scottish Parliament website
• Information from the SNP ( Memento from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Information from the Scottish Parliament ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b} Herald Scotland: SNP MSP Brian Adam dies aged 64 , April 25, 2013
4. ↑ Dumfries & Galloway Standard , “Tributes Paid to MSP Brian Adam,” May 7, 2013
5. ↑ Information from the SNP ( Memento from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ The Scotsman: Tributes paid to 'exceptional' SNP MSP Brian Adam , April 25, 2013
7. ↑ BBC News: Aberdeen SNP MSP Brian Adam dies aged 64 , April 25, 2013
8. ^ The Scotsman: Funeral held for SNP MSP Brian Adam , May 4, 2013
9. ↑ Results of the 1997 general election ( Memento of the original dated 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. 
10. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
11. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
12. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
13. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
14. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
15. ↑ Information from the Scottish Government
16. ↑ BBC News: Ministerial appointments debate , September 5, 2012
17. ↑ BBC: SNP's Mark McDonald wins Aberdeen Donside by-election , June 20, 2013