Dickson Mabon
Jesse Dickson Mabon FRSA PC (born November 1, 1925 in Glasgow , † April 11, 2008 in Eastbourne ) was a British politician.
Life
Mabon, the son of Jesse Dickson Mabon and Isabel Montgomery, attended schools in Possilpark, Cumbrae, and North Kelvinside. He then had to do forced labor in a coal mine as one of the so-called Bevin Boys . In the program, named after an idea by Ernest Bevin , some of the conscripts had to do some of their military service in this form. From 1944 to 1948 Mabon served in the army, then he took up a medical degree at the University of Glasgow . During his studies he was active in the student organization of the Labor Party and in 1949 was elected the first Scottish chairman of the National Student Union of the Labor Party. He graduated with honors and initially stayed at the university's institute responsible for health and social medicine.
He made his first attempts at a political mandate in the elections in 1951, in which he ran in the safe for the Conservative constituency of Ayrshire North and Bute . In the next election he tried again in vain in a conservative stronghold, this time in Renfrewshire West . Then Mabon, who meanwhile also wrote as a columnist for the Scottish Daily Record , stood for a by-election in the Greenock constituency , which he won and which made him one of the youngest MPs in the British Parliament in 1955, alongside Tony Benn . He represented the constituency of Greenock as a member of the House of Commons until 1974, then from 1974 to 1983 the constituency of Greenock and Port Glasgow, which was reorganized .
In 1964 he was in the government Harold Wilson first Undersecretary of State for Scotland, 1967, in the Cabinet Scotland Minister (State Secretary for Scotland). During the government of Prime Minister Callaghan , he took over the Ministry of Energy, which was also responsible for oil production, in 1976. In this position he strongly advocated the expansion of oil exploration in Scotland, which earned him the nickname Mr. Oil . He opposed the campaign run by the Scottish National Party to use the oil only for Scotland ( It's Scotland's Oil ). He was a member of the Labor Party until 1981 , before becoming a founding member of the Social Democratic Party , for which he was a member of parliament from 1981 to 1983. In the 1983 election he also because the Liberal Party set up its own candidate in his constituency, despite an agreement failed. From 1977 he was a member of the Privy Council . In the subsequent elections he failed twice in the constituency of Renfrew West , as well as in the European elections in 1984 in the constituency of Lothians , even in an agreement with the Liberal Democrats there was no constituency that was promising for him, so he switched back to the Labor Party in 1990.
Mabon was married; his wife had a son and two granddaughters. He was awarded the Freedom of the City as a Freeman in London .
literature
- Dickson Mabon , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/1978 of December 26, 1977, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
Web links
- Dr. Dickson Mabon at Hansard (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ J. Dickson Mabon , Daily Telegraph obituary dated April 14, 2008, viewed May 15, 2011.
- ↑ 'Mr Oil', the minister who helped launch North Sea oil industry, dies aged 82 , message on Dailyrecord.co.uk of April 11, 2008, viewed May 15, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mabon, Dickson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mabon, Jesse Dickson; Mr. Oil (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Politician (Labor, SDP), Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 2008 |
| Place of death | Eastbourne |