John Lee (politician, 1927)
John Michael Hubert Lee (born August 13, 1927 - April 14, 2020 ) was a British lawyer and Labor Party politician who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons for nine years .
Life
Lee graduated after attending the Reading School to study law at Christ's College of the University of Cambridge . Subsequently, he was from 1951 to 1958 employees of the Colonial Office ( Colonial Office ) in the Gold Coast colony , before an activity as after his return and his legal approval in 1958 Barrister recorded.
In the general election of October 15, 1964 , Lee ran for the Labor Party for the first time for a lower house mandate in the Reading constituency , but was defeated by the constituency holder of the Conservative Party , Peter Emery . In the elections that followed on March 31, 1966 , he succeeded in defeating Emery, before he was defeated again in the general election of June 18, 1970 by his opponent from the conservative Tories , Gerard Folliott Vaughan .
Lee ran again in the general election of February 28, 1974 for a seat in the House of Commons, this time in the Birmingham Handsworth constituency . Here he managed to beat the incumbent MP of the Conservative Party, Sidney Brookes Chapman , with a majority of 1,623 votes. While he received 14,290 votes (43.5 percent), Chapman received 12,667 votes (38.6 percent). In the next election , which took place on October 10, 1974 , Lee ran again and was able to expand his lead to 3896 votes. This time he received 15,011 votes (49.4 percent), while his current opponent from the Conservative Party, R. Tyler, only received 11,115 votes (37 percent).
In the general election on May 3, 1979 Lee declined to run again; he was replaced in the Birmingham Handsworth constituency by his party colleague Sheila Wright .
Web links
- John Lee at Hansard (English)
- The House of Commons Constituencies. Leigh Rayment Peerage, October 13, 2014, accessed January 18, 2015 ( Reading constituency entry).
- The House of Commons Constituencies. Leigh Rayment Peerage, October 13, 2014, accessed January 18, 2015 (English, entry on the Handsworth constituency).
- Lee, John (b.1927). The History of Parliament, accessed January 18, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death notice for John Lee. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lee, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lee, John Michael Hubert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lawyer and politician (Labor Party), member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2020 |