John Robert Clynes

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John Robert Clynes (born March 27, 1869 in Oldham , Lancashire , England , † October 23, 1949 in London ) was a British politician .

biography

Clynes had been a union official since 1889 and was one of the first members after the Labor Party was founded in 1900.

In the general election of 1906, which brought an increase of 25 seats to 29, he was elected for the first time as a member of the British House of Commons , in which he represented the constituency of Manchester North East until 1918 . Between 1912 and 1937 he was chairman of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. In 1918 he was re-elected as a representative of the Manchester Platting constituency and was a member of the House of Commons until 1931.

During the second coalition government under Prime Minister David Lloyd George , he was Parliamentary Secretary to Food Minister Lord Rhondda from October 1916 and was himself Minister of Food shortly after the resignation of Lord Rhondda in 1918. In 1919 he became deputy chairman of the Labor Party in the lower house.

In 1921 he finally became chairman of the Labor Party himself . After he was defeated in 1922 Ramsay MacDonald in re-election as party chairman, he was again deputy chairman of the Labor Party.

In the group formed by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald first Labor government he was from January to November 1924 Lord Privy Seal (Lord Privy Seal). Although he was nominally only Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in the House of Commons, he took on much of the chairmanship due to MacDonald’s deep involvement in post-war foreign policy .

In the Labor Party's second cabinet, MacDonald appointed him Home Secretary in June 1929. However, when MacDonald formed his National Government in August 1931, Clynes, like some other ministers of the previous government, joined the opposition and was defeated in the October 1931 general election.

In 1935 he was elected as a representative of the constituency of Manchester Platting until 1945 as a member of the lower house. However, he was no longer appointed to a government afterwards.

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SURNAME Clynes, John Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldham , Lancashire , England
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1949
Place of death London