Joseph Slater, Baron Slater

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Joseph "Joe" Slater, Baron Slater (born June 13, 1904 , † April 21, 1977 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for twenty years and in 1970 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer Became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Slater worked after school as a miner at the Mainsforth colliery in Ferryhill , which was taken over by the National Coal Board after the Coal Industry Nationalization Act 1946 came into force . For his services he was awarded the British Empire Medal on June 9, 1949 . He was a candidate for the Labor Party in the general election on February 23, 1950 in the Sedgefield constituency for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and was this for more than twenty years until the general election on June 18, 1970 . In his first election as well as in the subsequent re-elections, he was able to prevail clearly against his opponents with around 60 percent of the votes.

After the Labor Party won the general election on October 15, 1964 , Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed Slater Assistant Postmaster General . In this position, which he held as the last Assistant Postmaster General until the post office Act 1969 abolished the position on September 30, 1969, he was deputy and closest collaborator of four postmasters general, namely Tony Benn , Edward Short , Roy Mason and John Stonehouse . He then took over from October 1969 to June 1970 the role of Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which was also newly created by the Post Office Act .

After leaving the House of Commons, Slater became a member of the House of Lords through a letters patent dated July 8, 1970 as a life peer with the title Baron Slater , of Ferryhill in the County of Durham, and was a member of the House of Lords until his death.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 38628, HMSO, London, June 9, 1949, p. 2823 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ Assistant Postmasters General  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.postalheritage.org.uk  
  3. ↑ Tony Benn: Office Without Power: Diaries 1968-72 , 2012, ISBN 1-44649-3-741
personal data
SURNAME Slater, Joseph, Baron Slater
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slater, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1904
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1977