George Lindgren, Baron Lindgren

George Samuel Lindgren, Baron Lindgren OStJ DL JP (born November 11, 1900 in Islington , London - † September 8, 1971 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for fourteen years and was a Life Peer member in 1961 of the House of Lords .

Life

Member of the House of Commons

After attending Hungerford Road Elementary School, Lindgren worked as an office clerk at the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and unionized between 1933 and 1946 as a member of the National Railway Executive Committee.

After he had run unsuccessfully for the Labor Party in the constituency of Hitchin in the general election of November 14, 1935 , he was elected for the first time for the Labor Party in the constituency of Wellingborough as a member of the House of Commons in the general election on July 5, 1945 . Archibald James succeeded in beating the previous constituency holder of the Conservative Party . While he received 57.71 percent of the vote, James only received 42.29 percent of the vote. Lindgren represented the Wellingborough constituency until his own narrow loss to Michael Hamilton in the general election on October 8, 1959 .

Junior Minister and Member of the House of Lords

Immediately after his first election to the House of Commons and the formation of the first Labor government after World War II , Lindgren was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Insurance , James Griffiths , by Prime Minister Clement Attlee in 1945 . In 1946 he moved as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation , Harry Nathan , and held this position under Nathan's successor, Frank Pakenham, Baron Pakenham until 1950. Lindgren was most recently in the Attlee government from 1950 until the defeat of the Labor Party in the general election on October 25, 1951. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Local Government and Planning , Hugh Dalton .

Lindgren, who was subsequently deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace ( Justice of the Peace ) among other things , was named a life peer with the title Baron Lindgren , of Welwyn Garden City in the County of Hertfordshire, in by a letters patent dated February 9, 1961 raised the nobility and was thereby a member of the House of Lords until his death .

After the Labor Party won the general election on October 15, 1964 , he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport ( Minister of Transport ) Tom Fraser , and between December 1965 and January 1966 he also held this office with Fraser's successor, Barbara Castle . Most recently, Baron Lindgren, who was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Saint John in 1965, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Power , Fred Lee , between January and April 1966 .

Web links

• George Lindgren at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• George Samuel Lindgren, Baron Lindgren, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.