Frederick Mulley

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Frederick Mulley

Frederick "Fred" William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC (* 3. July 1918 , † 15. March 1995 ) was a British politician of the Labor Party .

Life

Mulley, son of a factory worker, attended Bath Place Church of England School and, on a scholarship, Warwick School. He then worked as an employee of the National Health Insurance Committee in Warwickshire, and during that time also joined the union as a member. In 1936 he also became a member of the Labor Party. After joining the British Army in 1939 , he was captured and spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germany .

After his release from captivity, he returned to England, where he met a fellowship at Christ Church College of Oxford University philosophy , politics and economics studied. Through another scholarship, he completed a postgraduate course at Nuffield College and was then from 1948 to 1950 research assistant of economics at St Catharine's College of the University of Cambridge worked. Then he studied law .

He began his political career when he was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party in the general election of February 23, 1950 in the House of Commons and in this until June 9, 1983 represented the interests of the Sheffield Park constituency. After leaving the House of Commons, this constituency was dissolved. In 1951 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Labor for the final months of Prime Minister Clement Attlee's tenure .

In 1954, he was a lawyer in the Bar Association of the Inner Temple added. He also represented the interests of Great Britain in the Advisory Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) between 1958 and 1961 and was temporarily Vice-President of the Union and its Defense Committee.

After the Labor Party won the general election in 1964, Prime Minister Harold Wilson first appointed him Deputy Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army in 1964. Mulley, who also became a member of the Privy Council in 1964 , then became Minister of Aviation in 1965, before he was Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for Disarmament between 1967 and 1969 . Mulley was most recently Transport Secretary in the Wilson cabinet from October 1969 to June 1970.

When the Labor Party was able to provide Prime Minister again with Harold Wilson after the general election of February 28, 1974 , Mulley was again Minister for Transport in March 1974. After a reshuffle of government he was then from June 1975 to September 1976 Secretary of State for Education and Science (Secretary of State for Education and Science), before he was last between September 1976 and May 1979 Minister of Defense in the government of Prime Minister James Callaghan .

In June 1980, Mulley was elected to succeed Kai-Uwe von Hassel as President of the Consultative Assembly of the WEU.

After leaving the House of Commons, he was made a Life Peer on January 30, 1984, with the title of Baron Mulley , of Manor Park in the City of Sheffield, and was henceforth a member of the House of Lords until his death .

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  1. ↑ a b DER SPIEGEL: PROFESSIONALS: Frederick Mulley (No. 24/1980)
personal data
SURNAME Mulley, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mulley, Frederick William, Baron Mulley (full name); Mulley, Fred (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor), Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1918
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1995