Hugh McCartney

Hugh McCartney (born January 3, 1920 in Glasgow , † March 1, 2006 in Kirkintilloch ) was a Scottish politician.

Life

McCartney was born in Glasgow in 1920, the son of tram driver John McCartney . He attended John Street Senior Secondary School and the Royal College of Science and Technology (now part of the University of Strathclyde ). At the age of 14 he began an apprenticeship in the textile industry. With the outbreak of World War II , McCartney moved to Coventry to work in Rolls-Royce's aircraft engine production. There he came into contact with the trade union system and became a lifelong member of the Transport and General Workers' Union . In 1941 McCartney first returned to Glasgow and a year later took a position in aircraft maintenance for the Royal Air Force .

After McCartney initially returned to Rolls-Royce at the end of the war, he accepted a position as a representative at Wilkins and Denton in 1951 , which he held until 1970. The company produced safety shoes, an issue McCartney felt connected to for family reasons, as his father retained a disability after an accident at work. He was married to his wife Margaret , with whom he fathered three children, two daughters and a son.

Political career

At the age of 14, McCartney joined the youth organization of the Independent Labor Party . Two years later he joined the Labor Party . From 1955 to 1970 he was a member of the Kirkintilloch City Council; also served on Dunbartonshire Regional Council between 1965 and 1970 .

After Cyril Bence did not run for the 1970 general election, the Labor Party set up McCartney as his successor in the East Dunbartonshire constituency . He won the mandate with a 44.6% share of the vote and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . At the following general election in February 1974 McCartney did not stand in the constituency of East Dunbartonshire, whose mandate went to the Conservative Barry Henderson . Instead, he ran for the mandate of the newly created constituency of Central Dunbartonshire . He clearly won the mandate and defended it in the subsequent elections in October 1974 and 1979 .

In the course of the constituency revision in the run-up to the general election in 1983 , McCartney's constituency was dissolved. For this reason, he joined the newly created constituency of Clydebank and Milngavie , in which parts of his former constituency had been absorbed. On election day he won a majority vote and thus retained a seat in parliament. At the general election in 1987 McCartney has not raced for more. His successor Tony Worthington held the Labor Party mandate. A total of 160 speeches by McCartney are recorded in Parliament.

McCartney is considered a moderate left fundamentalist. Between 1979 and 1983 he served as the whip of the Scottish Labor Party in Parliament. His son is former Labor MP Ian McCartney .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in Scotsman
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Obituary of the Guardian
3. ↑ Results of the 1970 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. 
4. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in February 1974 ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2017 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. 
5. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in October 1974 ( memento of the original from August 20, 2017 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. 
6. ↑ Results of the 1979 general election ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. 
7. ↑ Results of the parliamentary elections in 1983 ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1987 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2012 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. 
9. ↑ Hugh McCartney in Hansard (English)

Web links

• Hugh McCartney at Hansard (English)