David Adams (politician)

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David Adams (born June 27, 1871 , † August 16, 1943 in Jesmond , Newcastle ) was a British politician ( Labor Party ).

Life and activity

In his youth, visited the Adams School of Art and Science at Armstrong College of the University of Durham . He then became an engineer with the shipping company D. Adams and Company and the Anglo-Scottish Trading Company.

In 1902 Adams was elected to Newcastle City Council. In this community he served from 1922 to 1923 as sheriff and from 1930 to 1931 as Lord Mayor .

In the general election in December 1918, Adams applied for the first time - unsuccessfully - for a seat in the House of Commons , the British Parliament: He ran in the constituency of Newcastle upon Tyne West , but was defeated by Edward Shortt of the Liberal Party . In the election of 1922 he succeeded for the first time to move into the House of Commons as a member of Parliament, where he represented Newcastle upon Tyne West until the elections in 1923. In the election of 1923 he lost his seat to the conservative rival candidate Cecil Ramage . In the general election of 1924, Adams ran unsuccessfully in the City of York constituency and in the 1931 election unsuccessfully in the Barrow-in-Furness constituency for a seat in the House of Commons. In the 1935 election, Adams finally succeeded in returning to Parliament as a member of the Consett constituency , where he sat until his death in 1943. His mandate was then taken over by James Glanville .

family

Adams was married to Elizabeth Havelock Patterson since 1897. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.