Ian Campbell (politician, 1926)

Ian Campbell (born April 26, 1926 in Dumbarton , † September 9, 2007 ) was a Scottish politician.

Life

Campbell was born in Dumbarton in 1926, the second of four children to William and Helen Campbell . He attended Knoxland Primary School and Dumbarton Academy . Campbell studied electrical engineering at the Royal College of Science and Technology (now part of the University of Strathclyde ). After the Second World War he joined a technical unit of British troops in Germany. In 1950 he married Mary Millar , with whom he fathered five children.

Political career

In 1958 Campbell was elected to the Dumbarton City Council for the Labor Party and a few years later became Provost (roughly mayor ). In the run-up to the 1970 general election , Campbell's party colleague Tom Steele , who had represented the constituency of West Dunbartonshire in the British House of Commons since 1950 , announced his retirement from active politics. Campbell ran as his successor and prevailed against his opponents with a share of 50.9% of the vote. In the following general election in February and October 1974 and 1979 he held his mandate. Since his constituency was dissolved in the course of constituency reform in 1983, Campbell ran for the 1983 election in the newly created constituency of Dumbarton . He won the mandate and left the House of Commons at the end of the term. His successor in the constituency of Dumbarton was John McFall , who held the mandate for the Labor Party until the constituency was dissolved in 2005.

In Parliament, Campbell was seen as a backbencher with little ambition to rise to the front ranks. He rarely spoke up. As a devout Christian, however, he vehemently opposed the legalization of abortions. Between 1976 and 1979 he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary of Scotland Minister Bruce Millan .

Web links

• Ian Campbell at Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The Scotsman: Ian Campbell , September 24, 2007.
2. ↑ 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. 
3. ↑ Results of the February 1974 general election ( 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. 
4. ↑ 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. 
5. ↑ 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. 
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. ↑ ^{a b} Ian Campbell (politician, 1926) in Hansard (English)