John Maples, Baron Maples

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John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples (born April 22, 1943 in Fareham , Hampshire - † June 9, 2012 ) was a British lawyer and politician who represented the Conservative Party in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords .

Life

Attorney, House of Commons and Manager

After visiting the Marlborough College Maples holds a degree in law at Downing College of the University of Cambridge . He also studied economics at Harvard Business School . After graduation and receipt of legal admission to the Bar ( Inns of Court ) from Inner Temple he took in 1966 working as a lawyer ( Barrister ) and held this out to the 1,983th

Maples began his political career as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the June 9, 1983 general election in the Lewisham West constituency for the first time as a member of the House of Commons. After his re-election in the June 11, 1987 general election , he was defeated in the April 9, 1992 general election and received only 42.8 percent of the vote, while his opponent Jim Dowd of the Labor Party received 47 percent of the vote, which is that House of Commons mandate won.

During his parliamentary membership, he was first Parliamentary Private Secretary to Norman Lamont between 1987 and 1990 , who during this time was first Financial Secretary to the Treasury and finally Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1989 . He then became Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 1990 and held this fifth most important office in the Treasury until he left the House of Commons in 1992.

After leaving the House of Commons, he moved to the private sector and was Chairman of Government Communications at the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency between 1992 and 1996 . In addition, he was vice chairman of the Conservative Party from 1994 to 1995 and thus Deputy to Jeremy Hanley .

In the general election of May 1, 1997 he was finally re-elected as a member of the House of Commons with 48.3 percent of the vote and represented there after his re-election in the general election of June 7, 2001 with 50.3 percent and in the general election of May 5, 2005 with 49.2 percent of the vote to May 6, 2010 the constituency of Stratford-on-Avon .

Shadow Minister and Member of the House of Lords

Immediately after his election in 1997, he was appointed as shadow health minister in the shadow cabinet of the Conservative Tories of party leader William Hague . He was then spokesman for the opposition faction of the Conservative Party in the lower house between 1998 and 1999 , before he was shadow foreign minister in the Hagues shadow cabinet from 1999 to 2000. He was then a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs between November 2000 and November 2006 and then, since November 2006, again Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for the party's candidate selection in elections.

In January 2010 he announced that he would not stand again in the general election in May 2010 and, after leaving the House of Commons on July 24, 2010, was given the title of Baron Maples , of Stratford-on-Avon in the life peer County of Warwickshire, raised to the nobility . As such, he was a member of the House of Lords until his death from cancer on June 9, 2012.

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SURNAME Maples, John, Baron Maples
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maples, John, Baron Maples (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Fareham , Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2012