Thomas Clarke (politician)
Thomas "Tom" Clarke CBE (born January 10, 1941 in Coatbridge ) is a Scottish politician .
Life
Clarke attended All Saints School and St Mary's High School . He then moved to the Scottish College of Commerce at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow . For political merit, Clarke received the Order of the British Empire with the rank of Commander .
Political career
At the age of 18, Clarke was already a member of the campaign team of Labor politician James Dempsey when he ran for the first time in the constituency elections in 1959 in the constituency of Coatbridge and Airdrie and defended the mandate until his death in 1982. Four years later, Clarke was elected to Coatbridge City Council and then in 1974 as Provost of Monklands District .
After the death of James Dempsey in 1982 in the constituency of Coatbridge and Airdrie by-elections were required. To these the Labor Party put on Clarke, who ran for the first time in elections at the national level. On election day he was able to unite 55.1% of the vote and thus moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . At the end of the electoral term, the constituency of Coatbridge and Airdrie was dissolved as a result of constituency reform and largely replaced by the newly created constituency of Monklands West . Clarke ran for his mandate in the 1983 general election . On election day, he received a majority vote and thus retained his seat in the House of Commons. In the two subsequent elections in 1987 and 1992 , he held his mandate.
After the constituency of Monklands West was dissolved as part of a new constituency reform, Clarke entered the 1997 elections in the newly created constituency of Coatbridge and Chryston , whose mandate he won and defended in the 2001 elections. Clarke's constituency was dissolved for the third time in 2005 and he ran for election in the successor constituency of Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill that year . Clarke won the mandate and defended it in the 2010 election . As a result of massive votes by the SNP , Clarke resigned from the House of Commons in the 2015 general election at the age of 74. The mandate was won by the SNP candidate Philip Boswell .
In the Labor Party's shadow cabinet , Clarke was designated Secretary of State for People with Disabilities between 1987 and 1992. In the following parliamentary term he acted as party spokesman for Scotland issues and was shadow Scotland minister . From 1993 to 1994 he was then designated as Minister for International Development in order to then take up the position of State Secretary for Disability Rights in the shadow cabinet until 1997. In 1997 he was appointed State Secretary for Film and Tourism and held this position until 1998.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Clarke in Hansard (English)
- ↑ a b c entry in the Debrett’s
- ^ Robert Waller: The Almanac of British Politics , 6th Edition, Routledge, London, 1999, p. 178. ISBN 0-415-18540-8
- ↑ a b http://www.tomclarke.org.uk/?page_id=4 ( Memento from September 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Report of the Annual Conference , Labor Representation Committee, 1982, Volume 81, 1982, p. 35.
- ↑ Results of the parliamentary elections in 1983 ( 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.
- ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1987 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Results of the 1992 general election ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ^ Results of the general election in 1997 and 2001
- ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( 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.
- ^ Results of the 2010 general election
- ↑ Results of the general election 2015
- ↑ Information from the British Parliament
Web links
- Tom Clarke at Hansard (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clarke, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clarke, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coatbridge |